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Security quotes of the weekSecurity quotes of the weekPosted Jan 10, 2013 13:48 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)Parent article: Security quotes of the week
>A popular competitive TV show, where viewers vote for their favorites through text messages and/or the web, will be rumored to have had its voting process “hacked”
This already happened in France 20 years ago, someone hacked the phone network to be able to push their calls before everybody else, and win the prizes.
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Security quotes of the week Posted Jan 17, 2013 14:52 UTC (Thu) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]
I think you misunderstood.
The prediction talks about phone/SMS *voting*: you call/text a number to vote for a particular candidate. Calling faster through whatever means will not buy you (or your preferred candidate) much. Making a lot of calls will.
Box-stuffing is normally prevented by using a premium rate number. But if you have SS7 access, you can probably bypass this.
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