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Re:Show HN: Quick and anonymous salary "surveys" at lunch by aiiane on Thursday May 09, 2013 @01:02PM (#5681540)
You can display the # of items already entered and the timestamps they were entered at (but not the values). It's not perfect, but it would help eliminate the "pre-loading" attack. However, that still leaves the "post-loading" attack, where you send someone a blank link, and then afterwards, fill in the other entries with known values.
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Re:Show HN: Quick and anonymous salary "surveys" at lunch by hmsimha on Thursday May 09, 2013 @01:36PM (#5681777)
This (and the other suggestion by zerr) still leave the potential for someone to create multiple false 'minimum' datapoints, then target one of their coworkers to find out their salary.
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Re:Show HN: Quick and anonymous salary "surveys" at lunch by aiiane on Thursday May 09, 2013 @01:44PM (#5681831)
Yeah, it's not at all foolproof or even great. I don't think there's really a good solution that still provides true anonymity, since the only way to prevent box-stuffing is to actually restrict people to one entry per real person (and that generally requires a more involved real-world authentication process).
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Re:Show HN: Quick and anonymous salary "surveys" at lunch by narcissus on Thursday May 09, 2013 @01:24PM (#5681692)
That's cool. I can definitely do that and then maybe put a message about options for if you don't completely trust the person that sent you the link... Thanks!
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