Simon Willison’s Weblog

moot wins, Time Inc. loses. The Time.com poll hack was more sophisticated than I first thought... Time implemented reCAPTCHA half way through the voting period, but the 4chan community fought back with a custom interface that crowdsourced the job of voting and let individuals submit up to 30 votes a minute.

# 29th April 2009, 11:13 am / 4chan, captcha, moot, onlinepolls, recaptcha, security, timedotcom, voting

Conern over London parks vote. London is allocating 4 million pounds to improve parks around the city based on the results of an internet vote. Tom Steinberg: “Anyone in my team could knock up a script to vote with plausible looking data thousands of times, in about 30 minutes.”

# 9th December 2008, 1:25 pm / edemocracy, londonparks, tom-steinberg, voting