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Citrus ([personal profile] citrus) wrote2009-05-27 03:38 pm
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Hack opportunity for next season?

So, 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.

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