Hack opportunity for next season?
May. 27th, 2009 03:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
citrusSo, I just read this article: AT&T May Have Swayed 'Idol' Results.
This got me to thinking: AT&T network, eh? My mind started to churn on this a little bit.
Consider the following:
1. An iPhone app called "AI Fans application" or some such, which appears on the surface to serve some useful purpose - grab and play publicly available AI clips, or something.
2. The wifi connection to "phone home" for instructions.
3. Text messages on AT&T network, sent by a background process of the application.
Put all that together, and maybe one could create a botnet capable of seriously steering the results of Idol - especially in the earlier rounds. Something like this could have destroyed Adam Lambert much earlier!
Just food for thought. I'd do it, if I could.
This got me to thinking: AT&T network, eh? My mind started to churn on this a little bit.
Consider the following:
1. An iPhone app called "AI Fans application" or some such, which appears on the surface to serve some useful purpose - grab and play publicly available AI clips, or something.
2. The wifi connection to "phone home" for instructions.
3. Text messages on AT&T network, sent by a background process of the application.
Put all that together, and maybe one could create a botnet capable of seriously steering the results of Idol - especially in the earlier rounds. Something like this could have destroyed Adam Lambert much earlier!
Just food for thought. I'd do it, if I could.
