The Tory Pirate - Politics & Policy: ‘GhostVolunteer’ and why its a Bad Idea

I happened upon a Facebook discussion that had ended up on my feed due to a friend commenting on it. The discussion
was on a script called ‘GhostVolunteer‘ that would automatically fill in the volunteer form on the Conservative Party
website with random data. The idea being to flood the site with legitimate-looking, but completely fake, volunteer offers.

Now there are a number of issues to discuss here. For starters I don’t know how the volunteer forms are dealt once
received so its an open question whether GhostVolunteer would even have an effect. Regardless of what you (Read more…)