Interesting subject ...
Came up in a conversation with a buddy of mine last night about how these sites geared towards teens and grade school kids are just flying off the hook when done right.
We came up with some thoughts, although they are quit devious ;)
What if we had a poll go out to the entire grade school his daughter was attending... It had questions that were both multiple choice and fill in the blank.. basic so far, right ?
Here's where it gets interesting .. We were wondering if there are hidden fields we could use besides IP address that would "Identfiy" the computer being used to answer the form.
This way if Johnny could log on to Susie's computer when she went to the bathroom he could go to My computer, click properties, see the name of her computer - go to the survey database and look for the answers to a survey filled out from her computer 'name' or her 'workgroup' or 'domain' etc.. with the IP address she has.
Yes, there are hundreds of loopholes, I won't even get into them because they are infinite ... For starters ... not alll ip's are static, this would be pretty damn unethical and downright scandalous, this list goes on ...
However, there are other applications for such a concept ..
So the question is besides IP Address are there other hidden form fields you can put into questionnaires that would identify the computer it was answered from such as computer name, workgroup, any hardware I.D's, processor, so on? I'll do some digging to see what the IP hidden input field would be, but ANY OTHERS anyone here knows would be very helpful.. Want to play with some concepts for this