[HacktionLab] Anonymous survey tech?

[Charlie Harvey]

On 11/12/2018 11:07, Michael Rogers wrote:
> On 11/12/2018 10:51, Charlie Harvey wrote:
>> On 10/12/2018 17:47, naomi wrote:
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>> Given you have to store your responses anyway, you could just use the
>> row id in your database to store it and rely on your database to
>> increment it.
> 
> How does this detect multiple responses from the same person, which was
> the reason for suggesting storing the hashed IP address?

Hi Michael,

It can't do that - but that's inevitable if the system is anonymous (as
far as I know).

Hashing the IP (or IP and UA) won't work for detecting duplicate
responses either.

For example in a university or large workplace you're probably sharing
an IP address and if you're using one of their machines it'll have the
same useragent string. So if two people at a uni or workplace submit
responses you'll get the same hash and it'll be flagged as a duplicate.

Cheers,



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