[CQ-Contest] cqww rtty dxsummit spot report

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

> But de facto is that those spots shown were put from the listed
> ip-number. Eg. several US stations spoting from same ip which is
> allocated to the country of spotted DX-station, coincidence?

It's impossible to determine this from the information available to us.

> Of course spots with a bogus call does not itself necessary mean
> self-spotting. I have myself been "a victim" of this at least in one
> occasion. But with the bogus calls from DX-station's region is more
> likely selfspotting.

The packet cluster network needs to be redesigned as an authenticated 
service. End-user authentication makes spoofing and self-spotting much 
more difficult, and also prevents non-amateurs from injecting traffic 
that ends up going out over the air. Transport layer (i.e. node-to-node) 
authentication prevents rogue nodes (e.g., those that don't implement 
end-user authentication) from connecting to the network.

The same applies to the many "telnet" gateways that let anyone on the 
internet initiate over-the-air connections.

--lyndon