Divinity
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I know most will say that EL is there. However the method by which EL collects data is prone to attacks including inclusion of fake globals into the EL data stream.
Today, I was informed of one such way of doing so and someone used the method to collect peds from events based on Global scoring system. A couple LA's/events have been already reported to have been effected by this. The problem lies with the approach that EL follows and that is collecting the information from the EL client. Then it becomes easy to replicate that data and if someone can show the same data coming from multiple sources then it becomes increasing difficult to segregate good data from the bad data.
Why can we not have the global data show on a page or uploaded in a txt file for download on a daily basis? I do not think this is a major job and can very easily be automated.
This will prevent issues of duplication/corruption of data and missed globals etc.
Today, I was informed of one such way of doing so and someone used the method to collect peds from events based on Global scoring system. A couple LA's/events have been already reported to have been effected by this. The problem lies with the approach that EL follows and that is collecting the information from the EL client. Then it becomes easy to replicate that data and if someone can show the same data coming from multiple sources then it becomes increasing difficult to segregate good data from the bad data.
Why can we not have the global data show on a page or uploaded in a txt file for download on a daily basis? I do not think this is a major job and can very easily be automated.
This will prevent issues of duplication/corruption of data and missed globals etc.