Submitted on Tuesday 26th March 2019
Rejected on Thursday 4th April 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Improve Gov petition security to prevent fraudulant signatures being added.
Recently it has come to light that the actual number of signatures displayed on a .Gov petition cannot be relied upon as a true and accurate number of genuine signees.
Bots, among other methods, can be used to add false data. Internet companies get around this issue by using human response tests.
We feel the .gov petition service has a fundamental security flaw. It is easy for campaigners to encourage their supporters to add fraudulant data.
One method being setting up domaon names with catch-all email addresses and forwarding the catch all to one address for manual verification Employing the use of scripting language, otherwise known as bots, it is easy to add thousands of fake names in just hours.
There are simple fixes to prevent this happening. CAPTCHA on signup forms could help.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the UK Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We already monitor petitions to check for fraudulent activity. We use a number of techniques, automated and manual, to identify and block signatures from bots, disposable email addresses or other sources that show signs of fraudulent activity. We also monitor signing patterns. For security reasons, we don’t tell people when their fraudulent activity has been unsuccessful.
We don’t comment in detail about the security measures, but all petitions are subject to checks as part of due diligence and any concerns investigated. We're therefore not sure exactly what further action you'd like to see.
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