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[Pete Hardie]

Subba Rao wrote:
>>While I'm not sure that this project will acheive its stated goal, I do 
>>have one comment about the frequent use of a CPU ID for validation - why?  
>>What additional validation does this provide?  What happens when I switch 
>>machines?
>>
> 
> 
> This is to avoid a person registering more than once.  If you have n+ machines
> you can register n+ times and have n+ votes.  You should not register and have
> n+ ids with one machine and cast your vote.

How is the validation of CPU IDs to be done?  I could get CPU IDs off a bunch of 
machines that I know are not going to be used for this and create a bunch of 
IDs, and vote as those people, couldn't I?  For that matter, I could register a 
number of GPG keys as different people and vote.






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