This doesn't appear to be true. In an article linked to by the story: http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2009/03/06/trying_to_game_swoopo_com/ http://jcs.org/notaweblog/

This doesn't appear to be true. In an article linked to by the story: http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2009/03/06/trying_to_game_swoopo_com/ http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2009/03/06/trying_to_game_swoopo_c... we are told that last-second manual bids had a possibly suspicious tendency to get lost, and it is hard or impossible to win without using their (evil) helper software.