If and when crap like that happens, it's time to find something else to do.
Barry W2UP
On 6/5/2012 9:18 AM, W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote:
> What he is saying is that if I submit a score for W0MU, someone else can
> send another log overwriting my original submission with some bogus
> information.
>
> You don't have to get a hold of anything. The robot simply takes the
> log that it receives and processes it.
>
> I can change my email address and look like anyone I want. Spammers do
> this all the time. Obviously the IP addresses will be different.
>
> Now that it has been brought up there probably needs to be a more secure
> way to upload your logs and setup a verified identity and if a 2nd log
> were to be uploaded that you would be notified of the 2nd log and would
> need accept or verify the new log or send any further logs with the
> proper credentials for it to be accepted.
>
> I would like to hear from ARRL and CQ etc on how they handle this and if
> they think it has ever happened in the past.....
>
> Mike W0MU
>
> W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net:23 or w0mu-1.dnsdynamic.com
> Http://www.w0mu.com
>
>
> On 6/5/2012 7:36 AM, Zack Widup wrote:
>> Are you saying that someone can get hold of another station's log
>> after it has been submitted and tamper with it? If that's the case,
>> then the security needs to be placed on the computer where the logs
>> are stored by the contest sponsor.
>>
>> I don't know how e-mailed logs are handled; if someone submits a log a
>> second time, does it wipe out the earlier log stored in the sponsor's
>> files, or are both kept?
>>
>> If someone just fabricated a log, it seems it would be pretty obvious
>> on log checking.
>>
>> Also, an examination of the header of the e-mail file should show
>> where the log came from.
>>
>> 73, Zack W9SZ
>>
>>
>> On 6/4/12, Katsuhiro Kondou<kondou@voyackey.net> wrote:
>>> Change the subject from the original, and removed related References
>>> headers.
>>>
>>> In article<4FCC7194.3080802@ei5di.com>,
>>> "Paul O'Kane"<pokane@ei5di.com> wrote,
>>> on "Mon, 04 Jun 2012 09:28:04 +0100";
>>>
>>> } In the days of paper logs, we had to submit a signed
>>> } declaration with each log. With electronic logs, the
>>> } declaration is assumed, but largely forgotten. One
>>> } practical solution is for the logging software to
>>> } display the declaration and ask for the operator's
>>> } agreement, by having to type the word YES, before the
>>> } Cabrillo log is created.
>>> }
>>> } The declaration, in effect a pledge that is renewed
>>> } with each entry, is good enough for me.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure this was discussed before, but this reminds me that
>>> someone who has malicious intention may submit other station's
>>> log to defeat the station after first submission by actual station.
>>> There looks no authentication method to verify the station for major
>>> contests(please correct me if I am wrong). Complicated method to
>>> authenticate the station may lead decreasing the number of log
>>> submission, so this may not be applied to all stations. But I think
>>> there should be some method to authenticate at least for stations who
>>> want to win a prize.
>>>
>>> Please ignore this message if my concern is baseless fear, the
>>> contest sponsors have already taken care of this, or we can trust
>>> everybody since we all have good morals.
>>> --
>>> Katsuhiro "Don" Kondou, JH5GHM
>>> Tokyo, JAPAN
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