[UPHPU] Genetically coded website

[Brandon Stout]

Justin Giboney wrote:
> Thank you Victor for your kind, and professional response. Sorry, if I 
> offended anyone. I didn't want to necessarily incriminate anyone. I 
> just wanted to kind of find out if someone had any theories on doing 
> this test, or thoughts behind it. If they did it for research than I 
> am all for it.
>
> I know that this wasn't secure, or protected from bots, or really 
> malicious persons. I thought about 1 vote per ip, or even a cookie, to 
> control the amount of votes. Maybe I'll do that for any future tests.
>
> But what does the group think about the concept? Imagine a website 
> with artificial intelligence.
>
> Justin Giboney

One fairly large problem comes up when limiting by IP.  Many internal 
networks NAT to one web IP.  If several people in one business receive 
an email about this site, and they go to vote, only one of them will be 
able to do so.  Even if there are header() functions that can pull the 
original IP plus the web IP and limit off that, some businesses will not 
support it and will not provide internal ips in the header packets.  I 
don't want to turn your thread into a NAT vs IP v6 war, so I'll stop 
there.  Just be aware that limiting by IP may not be the best way to 
limit your visitors.

Brandon Stout
http://mscis.org