Friday, July 11, 2008

How I Lost a Contest Involving Chihuahuas


"So my lovely gfnd’s co-worker enrolled her pet Chihuahua into a contest to rate the dog against others of the same breed in the local area. Vaguely amused, I took a look at the web application and sure enough, it pretty much sucked.
The developers had used a client side code in Flash to make it so that you couldn’t submit twice, but in re-loading the app you could (and that’s how the newbs in her office were cheating). I, however, looked at what data it was sending and sure enough I could send votes by bypassing the client side app entirely. I took the cheating to a whole new level...."

Continued here

[kudos to the anonymous reader for the tip]

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