[Metalpnx]

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Originally Posted by Thessair

I program at my job. BOA isn't going to have access to the bot program (if there actually was one), so they aren't going to see any incrementing counter written in to it. Additionally, the type of cheating mentioned by JDF is a completely different animal. Unless they logged the IP address of every set of votes coming in, it would be hard tracking that sort of activity. It looks as though they sort of put the whole thing together in a manner that required a minimal amount of effort on their end.

Even worse, reportedly the cookie exploit still works. If they can't lock down the problem, I have little faith that they can accurately determine whether a vote that comes in is legitimate or an abusing second, third, or, fourth vote from the same person. Hence why it would have been better to roll it all back to an even starting point.

And beyond all this, it doesn't explain how the Tommy Rangers ended up with MORE votes after the purge than they did before it.

First let me say I am new here but with my background in information and data security couldn't resist adding my .02$. My degree is in computer science with a networking focus. I said all that to say this- The network admin should have no trouble once the vulnerability is identified filtering out any connections made exploiting the vulnerability. This is a big part of why server logs are kept. The server logs will have a date time stamp as well as ip address for every connection. This would also catch low volume cheaters as incognito mode and clearing cookies won't change your IP. You could still cheat using proxies or vpns but not on nearly as large a scale because they would still need to be changed each time you vote. All that being said as a rangers fan it seems people are taking it that if you vote against JDF he's calling you a hater...... I don't see that I see the few cheaters as being called haters. But take it how you want I'm voting for my fav's I hope you are too even if they aren't the same as mine.

TLDR: Yes they can catch cheaters.If your not cheating your not hating. Vote your heart or your hate whatever makes you happy.