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19th January 2007 - Link Blog

The NHL's All-Star voting disaster. The NHL ran an online poll to decide which players are picked for their All-Star Game. The only authentication was a poorly implemented CAPTCHA. Unsurprisingly, it got gamed.

Posted 19th January 2007 at 9:50 am

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