<story><title>4chan hacker discusses the manipulation of the Time poll</title><url>http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision-hack/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshsharp</author><text>I was surprised to read how easy it was to game... at the heart of the success seems to be a real lack of quality coding on Time&apos;s behalf.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>extension</author><text>Fair internet voting is generally an unsolvable problem, unless you have a voting list from a more reliable source and you can authenticate people on that list. Despite best practices, any high profile &quot;best person in the world&quot; poll has a pretty good chance of being won by moot/Lowtax/gimmick-meme-of-the-day.</text></comment>
<story><title>4chan hacker discusses the manipulation of the Time poll</title><url>http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision-hack/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshsharp</author><text>I was surprised to read how easy it was to game... at the heart of the success seems to be a real lack of quality coding on Time&apos;s behalf.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Frazzydee</author><text>quite surprising, since time&apos;s poll has historically been a target of similar attacks.</text></comment>