It is easy enough to spoof IP addresses, it is done all the time in
gaming where cheating is very common.
The issue at hand and this will never be solved is that anyone can use
any callsign pretty much anytime they want on any cluster as there is
no/very few password protections in place.
I would love to know how CQ or ARRL or any other body for that matter
can tie an ip address directly to someone else without cooperation from
their ISP, which I find unlikely that you would get without a search
warrant, etc.
I find it incredible the amount of bad behavior people have in a hobby
where we compete mostly for PDF pixel file certificates and a few wooden
plaques.
Back to the Cyprus issue in the past, it was pointed out that a certain
station in a Youtube video was shown greatly exceeding the power limit
for that country and absolutely nothing was done or said by any contest
board that I am aware of.
W0MU
On 1/27/2017 12:34 PM, Alessandro Gromme wrote:
The problem, in my opinion, is not necessarily limited in cyprus.
The fact that the spot used to accuse me of self-spotting have an IP due to
the Cyprus CYTAnet network does not mean anything, anyone can find that IP
from the internet and use it to mask their own.
I think, simply, that a rule should exist if there is a surefire way to
prove that someone has not respected but as long as the cluster will be
accessible to anyone without asecure key and reliable authentication of the
identity of those accessing, that rule it can be used by any committee to
exclude from competing any stations
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