One person - several FAS accounts? (was: bodhi abuse?)

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at greysector.net
Sun Aug 31 09:57:34 UTC 2008


On Sunday, 31 August 2008 at 05:36, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Seth Vidal wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 00:57 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > > On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:46:58 +0300, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > >
> > > > I agree with Michael about 10^10%.
> > > >
> > > > FAS accounts should be only one for each user. If there are needs for
> > > > having several accounts for one person, these needs should be
> > > > explained and either the FAS system extended to cover these cases, or
> > > > special cased by whatever entity (fesco, fab, Fedora infra team?) is
> > > > authoritative.
> > > >
> > > > Isn't there perhaps already some texting that one needs to click
> > > > through that has the user sign that he will use only that account?
> > > > Otherwise could someone add this?
> > > >
> > > > Besides bodhi fake voting this can even be used for fab/fesco fake
> > > > voting (although it is probably harder to mark several
> > > > same-person-accounts as packager accounts w/o anyone noticing it)!
> > >
> > > Just for the record and because my original post went to fedora-buildsys-list.
> > > I've stumbled into suspicious voting activity in bodhi, such as:
[...]
> > > However, all I see so far is an attempt at raising karma in bodhi in the
> > > hope that the updates will be pushed to stable sooner. And that is
> > > foul play IMO.
> >
> > Yes, This seems like a real problem to me.
> >
> > Thanks for the heads up.
> >
> 
> If this becomes a real problem (or if it is already) we can just create a
> policy against this sort of thing and enforce it on a per complaint basis.

Actually this sort of thing is better handled by automated monitoring,
for example >2 votes within 5 minutes and/or from the same IP range should
raise some flags.

Regards,
R.

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