4 ms·

Was it though? The people who develop the app surely account for basic voting fraud..

• errantspark 10y ago
  Never overestimate computer security, it's almost always worse than "surely it can't be that bad"
  • loktarogar 10y ago
    Well I've met people who've worked on the app, and I doubt that both these folks and a GDS team would miss the major hostile use case of the app.
• makomk 10y ago
  They do. They just removed 77,000 signatures for fraud: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/eu-referendum-brexit-petition-second-fraud-investigation-latest-results-signatures-a7104416.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/eu-referendum... (Which probably wasn't even hard - if you look at the claimed 4chan script, it uses the same postcode for every vote, which happens to be the postcode of the Houses Of Parliament.) The total number of signatures is over 3 million. Additionally, this article is from a right-wing tabloid site of questionable honesty, and is based on taking 4chan comments and random tweets at face value and then accusing the "Remainstream press" of failing to perform "basic journalistic research" for not doing so.
• reitanqild 10y ago
  Wouldn't surprise me if they didn't. That said I'd say hold for now until confirmed: 4C can have equally much fun trolling us by pretending they trolled them.