http://simonwillison.net/2009-04-20T20:36:05+00:00Simon Willison2009-04-20T20:36:05+00:002009-04-20T20:36:05+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/20/subverted/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision-hack/">Inside the precision hack</a></strong></p> How 4chan members subverted a Time.com online poll to reorder the options and spell out their own message. Partly poor application design from Time (the first version used a GET request without input validation), but I challenge anyone to design an anonymous online poll that can’t be fixed using the more sophisticated techniques 4chan eventually deployed based on HTTP proxies. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/4chan">4chan</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/polls">polls</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a></p>