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Comment by banana_giraffe

4 months ago

> Gaining control over a large number of devices in the target geographic region for submitting votes through those devices

Does AWS Lambda count as a machine for these purposes? If so, you can get a nearly infinite number of them just by cycling a config param and casting another vote.

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gavinsyancey  4 months ago

I assume they'd just ban the entire AWS IP block. And similarly for other cloud providers.

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