• DocumentCode
    2480602
  • Title

    Compulsive voting

  • Author

    Hernández, Julio César ; Sierra, José María ; Hernández, Carlos Javier ; Ribagorda, Arturo

  • Author_Institution
    Comput. Security Group, Carlos III Univ., Leganes, Spain
  • fYear
    2002
  • fDate
    2002
  • Firstpage
    124
  • Lastpage
    133
  • Abstract
    If quizzes, and even polls, are commonly understood not to be good examples of fair and reliable procedures, when they take place on the Internet people´s fears are fully justified, at least until their organizers take their security more seriously into account. Nowadays, many of these quizzes and polls with prizes are being manipulated by not especially skilled people using nearly off-the-shelf tools. We point out this problem by showing some simple ways to exploit this lack of security, and propose some solutions that are easy to implement. The main aim is to point out that these frauds are constantly being carried out and to warm administrators to take actions to avoid them.
  • Keywords
    Internet; fraud; security of data; telecommunication security; Internet; compulsive voting; data security; fraud; network security; off-the-shelf tools; polls; quizzes; Computer science; Computer security; Data security; Digital cameras; Image analysis; Internet; Measurement standards; Standards development; Voting; Web pages;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Security Technology, 2002. Proceedings. 36th Annual 2002 International Carnahan Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-7436-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CCST.2002.1049238
  • Filename
    1049238