Re: Help - PHP Security problems

Chris, You should put (if it's not already, since I didn't visited the site) that this condition is temporary, while you are fixing the problem. It would be hard to believe that if an US American was doing this cheats you would ban the entire country. At least, it is good PR :-) -- Julio Nobrega A hora está chegando: http://toca.sourceforge.net "Ad" <n@pb1.pair.com> wrote in message news:20011107074806.53352.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > But, it seems you've already found a solution, you've banned an entire > country from using your service. > > <snip> > Why can't people in China play? > Unfortunately, we had a person in China who had written a program that would > automatically submit tickets for 1,000 email addresses a day (or 10,000 > tickets). We tried for many days to stop them in conventional ways, but for > every stop that we put into place they would work their way around it. So > the only way to stop them for sure was to say that anyone in China could > never win. One bad apple does spoil the whole bunch. > </snip> > > hehe > > The embedding a code in a graphic is a cool idea, maybe generate the graphic > dynamically with a random code each time. > > -AD > >