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What worries me now is this. Recently some people showed how points could be assigned to posts by clicking on a link. Now I wonder if maybe some of us have be

What worries me now is this. Recently some people showed how points could be assigned to posts by clicking on a link. Now I wonder if maybe some of us have been somehow infected and are somehow contributing these points without knowing? Is that even possible?

Estragon 15y ago
Do you mean a XSRF-style attack on upvotes? Could be, but I can't imagine why...
- mikecane 15y ago
  I'm not a coder, so I don't know how it could be done. I was just thinking of those "evercookies" that can't be killed in a reasonable manner.
- dfc 15y ago
  You can't imagine why Eve would want to trick Alice and Bob into upvoting one of her submissions she had an interest in? Or you can not imagine why Eve would want to trick Alice and Bob into upvoting other submissions so that they got killed and her submission received more attention?
  - Estragon 15y ago
    I can't imagine how it would be worthwhile to go to that much technical effort for the sake of ranking on HN.
    - dfc 15y ago
      Really? Think about the exposure a fledgling starup can get from being on page 1 for an hour or two. I think a post from malda said HNed was the new /.ed...