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by aiiane 4787 days ago
You can display the # of items already entered and the timestamps they were entered at (but not the values). It's not perfect, but it would help eliminate the "pre-loading" attack. However, that still leaves the "post-loading" attack, where you send someone a blank link, and then afterwards, fill in the other entries with known values.
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This (and the other suggestion by zerr) still leave the potential for someone to create multiple false 'minimum' datapoints, then target one of their coworkers to find out their salary.
Yeah, it's not at all foolproof or even great. I don't think there's really a good solution that still provides true anonymity, since the only way to prevent box-stuffing is to actually restrict people to one entry per real person (and that generally requires a more involved real-world authentication process).
That's cool. I can definitely do that and then maybe put a message about options for if you don't completely trust the person that sent you the link... Thanks!