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Amy:
> In the last episode I wrote:
> > -Voter clicks on a link to authenticate his votes (i.e.
> > authenticate his email address)
Generally e-mail authentication is a useful method, but
there are some of us who have "a few" addresses (on
different domains of course ;-).
Having an annoying sense of what is right and wrong, I am
afraid I might not use the possibility though.
> I could also use cookies to make sure that each computer
> was used for voting just once.
This is simply too easy to circumvent - even if you insist
that browsers have to accept cookies to vote.
IP numbers are of course also a possible filtering
mechanism, but its only real benefit is that very few
people know how to fake IP numbers for a complete HTTP
request.
Jacob (who still thinks _rating_ the entries is the way to go)
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| (...) I could also use cookies to make sure that each computer was used for voting just once. There are ways to cheat this, too, and it may prevent a couple legitimate votes (e.g. family votes), but no system is perfect. This would prevent an AOL (...) (23 years ago, 19-Feb-01, to lugnet.town)
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