DA fan hacks into ‘voting’ website

Not much of a hacker if he get caught so easily.

One wonders if it is a DA fan or an unofficial Da employee.
 
Sackboy said:
By hacking they mean someone voted, cleared the cookie and voted again.

Yawn.
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exactly what i was thinking... seems like being called a 'hacker' isn't as amazing as it used to be.
 
Eish.... I really would not call that "hacking". It's merely exposing a very basic little loophole such as the cookie-based voting or similar... and then exploiting it. Easy to trace this person, but actually identifying the actual person from such, close to impossible. Quite hard to get an IP address turned into a phone number.... (court orders and so on...)
 
HumanoidTyphoon said:
Did they specify that it is only one vote per ip on the poll?
If not, its not illegal.
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In what way is this illegal? i mean you can't get in trouble for it... its a bloody online poll. not the actual elections. its so easy to just vote twice. rigging a poll is in no way illegal!
 
froot said:
Eish.... I really would not call that "hacking". It's merely exposing a very basic little loophole such as the cookie-based voting or similar... and then exploiting it. Easy to trace this person, but actually identifying the actual person from such, close to impossible. Quite hard to get an IP address turned into a phone number.... (court orders and so on...)
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I dont know too much about it but doesn't the fact that we use dynamic IP's make it almost impossible to track the user down?
 
scot.cowley said:
I dont know too much about it but doesn't the fact that we use dynamic IP's make it almost impossible to track the user down?
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Nope. When you are assigned an IP address it gets logged by the owner of the gateway (either IS or SAIX->Telkom). They can then see from to whom the IP was leased (ISP) who can see who was assigned the IP (username). From this they can find the person (either via personal info, or via NAS Port->phone number). But all of this requires legal enforcement though.
 
scot.cowley said:
I dont know too much about it but doesn't the fact that we use dynamic IP's make it almost impossible to track the user down?
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The most likely thing is that the "hacker" had been commenting on articles on sites under the same management, and hadn't changed his IP address. The gives you the "online persona" mentioned in TFA.
 
Sackboy said:
It would be a legal requirement. I would guess 5 years for the oldest archive.
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To clarify: they keep records of dynamically assigned IP addresses for 5 years? Seems unlikely, just in terms of amount of data?
 
The hacker, whose online identity has been traced, ...
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We know who you are, but if you come out now, we'll lighten the punishment...:D

lol

I think I've voted more than once on one of myadsl's polls (on the left of the home page), does that mean I'm a hacker too?. cool.
Sorry for hacking myadsl though, wont do it again.
 
NameOfBeast said:
To clarify: they keep records of dynamically assigned IP addresses for 5 years? Seems unlikely, just in terms of amount of data?
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I'm guessing. 5 years seems to be standard for data. It wouldn't take a lot of space nowadays anyway.
(You worried about it ;-)
 
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