Re: Abuse prevention
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 7:57 PM Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> wrote:
> > We would love to know if you need to prevent abuse at all.
>
> No. Problem we have are rather:
>
> 1) People cloning systems without regard to popcon leading to several
> systems having the same popcon ID which leads to submissions being
> discarded (each time a submission is receive the previous one with the
> same popcon ID is discarder).
>
> 2) Too many people trying to submit at the exact same time (perhaps
> because of 1) which cause the web server to timeout.
>
> 3) Corrupted reports (either in transit or from corrupted drive) and
> a very small number of manually edited reports.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
>
> Imagine a large red swirl here.
Thank you very much for your response!
I think it's encouraging that such a big volunteer effort as popcon
(and Debian itself even) can suffer so little abuse.
Have a great day!
Dan
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