Justin Kan #1 on Business 2.0's Most Influential People List (and i am responsible)
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Re: Justin Kan #1 on Business 2.0's Most Influential People List (and i am responsible)
#2Business 2.0 has implemented a flash based voting system to pick the Most Influential people(from their list!) .The sleek interface looks great, but actionscript that runs behind the scene is amazingly lame.
Exercising democracy is far more better than,editors handpicking a top 10 list over a pizza.But if the system built to exercise democracy is lame, then all your fun are belong to coders!
Hacking/breaking/gaming a live system is not really a cool thing to do. But what if the target is too lazy and careless ?
Re: Justin Kan #1 on Business 2.0's Most Influential People List (and i am responsible)
#3Business 2.0 has implemented a flash based voting system to pick the Most Influential people(from their list!) .The sleek interface looks great, but actionscript that runs behind the scene is amazingly lame. Exercising democracy is far more better than,editors handpicking a top 10 list over a pizza.But if the system built to exercise democracy is lame, then all your fun are belong to coders! Hacking/breaking/gaming a…
actually i was about to ask you how you did it
maybe this just show that how matters most now are the developers. hehe.
Re: Justin Kan #1 on Business 2.0's Most Influential People List (and i am responsible)
#4Business 2.0 has implemented a flash based voting system to pick the Most Influential people(from their list!) .The sleek interface looks great, but actionscript that runs behind the scene is amazingly lame. Exercising democracy is far more better than,editors handpicking a top 10 list over a pizza.But if the system built to exercise democracy is lame, then all your fun are belong to coders! Hacking/breaking/gaming a…
actually i was about to ask you how you did it maybe this just show that how matters most now are the developers. hehe.
who matters most now (i mean)
Re: Justin Kan #1 on Business 2.0's Most Influential People List (and i am responsible)
#5I couldn't believe they allowed voting at all. Even if it wasn't hackable, it would still produce garbage results. Time tried this about ten years ago, and Attaturk won in almost every category, including, iirc, best athlete of the 20th century, and best poet.
Re: Justin Kan #1 on Business 2.0's Most Influential People List (and i am responsible)
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
actually i was about to ask you how you did it maybe this just show that how matters most now are the developers. hehe.
who matters most now (i mean)
For a flash based implementation all you have to know is:
#1 Anyone can dissect a swf file and read your code .
#2 Own your swf files.This means ,make sure that your server side script runs/executes only if the swf file resides in your trusted domain.
For a voting system, some kind of IP based check is a basic necessity. Business2.0 didn't even care to implement it.Aint that lame?
Re: Justin Kan #1 on Business 2.0's Most Influential People List (and i am responsible)
#7I'm surprised it's not Ron Paul
Re: Justin Kan #1 on Business 2.0's Most Influential People List (and i am responsible)
#8Business 2.0 has implemented a flash based voting system to pick the Most Influential people(from their list!) .The sleek interface looks great, but actionscript that runs behind the scene is amazingly lame. Exercising democracy is far more better than,editors handpicking a top 10 list over a pizza.But if the system built to exercise democracy is lame, then all your fun are belong to coders! Hacking/breaking/gaming a…
"Hacking/breaking/gaming a live system is not really a cool thing to do. But what if the target is too lazy and careless ?"
That doesn't really matter. That's like saying "Judge, I only stole this car because the lock was lame and whoever designed it was lazy and careless." See how silly your argument really is?!
Re: Justin Kan #1 on Business 2.0's Most Influential People List (and i am responsible)
#9Re: Justin Kan #1 on Business 2.0's Most Influential People List (and i am responsible)
#10Business 2.0 has implemented a flash based voting system to pick the Most Influential people(from their list!) .The sleek interface looks great, but actionscript that runs behind the scene is amazingly lame. Exercising democracy is far more better than,editors handpicking a top 10 list over a pizza.But if the system built to exercise democracy is lame, then all your fun are belong to coders! Hacking/breaking/gaming a…
"Hacking/breaking/gaming a live system is not really a cool thing to do. But what if the target is too lazy and careless ?" That doesn't really matter. That's like saying "Judge, I only stole this car because the lock was lame and whoever designed it was lazy and careless." See how silly your argument really is?!
For automobile industry [or any direct consumer product for that matter,say ,Gmail ], a lame product will be replaced by a competition. Thats how better products dominate the market.Thats how 'survival of the fittest' works.
But for lame practices, the answer is it to break it down and show them why they should care. This is a humble reply to an extremely careless coding practice.
I am not proud of what i did.For a beta product, if glitch exist, it can be reported. But come on..this is freaking CNN! Cant they just care to implement a decent system for The Worldwide Campaign they run?