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[Subba Rao]

On  0, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at sciatl.com> wrote:
> Subba Rao wrote:
> >>While I'm not sure that this project will acheive its stated goal, I do 
> >>have one comment about the frequent use of a CPU ID for validation - why? 
> >>What additional validation does this provide?  What happens when I switch 
> >>machines?
> >>
> >
> >
> >This is to avoid a person registering more than once.  If you have n+ 
> >machines
> >you can register n+ times and have n+ votes.  You should not register and 
> >have
> >n+ ids with one machine and cast your vote.
> 
> How is the validation of CPU IDs to be done?  I could get CPU IDs off a 
> bunch of machines that I know are not going to be used for this and create 
> a bunch of IDs, and vote as those people, couldn't I?  For that matter, I 
> could register a number of GPG keys as different people and vote.
> 

The system is not perfect.  The person who wants to cheat may be able to cheat
by registering with Windows/Macs/Sun CPU id's while they are not running Linux.
This is the closest I could come with trying to avoid unauthorized voting to
the deserving programmers.

Probably in the future there may be a better way to authenticate a user/voter.
-- 
Subba Rao
subba9 at cablespeed.com
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