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How do you viciously spam a localized anonymous message board? - Your posts a limited geographically - The app knows your device ID - The servers should be abl
by lsaferite 12y ago
How do you viciously spam a localized anonymous message board?
- Your posts a limited geographically
- The app knows your device ID
- The servers should be able to easily detect location hopping
With all of that in mind, limiting SPAM posts should be simple.
If, instead, your goal is to suppress mentions of your competition, well that's a whole different problem set and you see how the implemented solutions works.
- olefoo 12y agoFirst rule of networked application security is "Don't trust your inputs." It's relatively easy to deceive an app about it's location; easier if it's running in an emulator environment. And that works just as well for iOS as it does for Android.
- lsaferite 12y agoYes, I know that. That's why I specifically mentioned location hopping. You can also fake device IDs. To fight that you'd have to do even more. The point being, a simple word filter is not how you fight SPAM, it's how you silence something you don't want discussed.
- tedks 12y agoYou can endlessly create emulators that only spam in a specific area. I only know about Fade because of yik yak spam. Yik Yak is anonymous and has no concept of users. Fighting spam is going to be hard.