Questions have been asked about whether all the 3m signatures on the petition are genuine.
Questions have been asked about whether a government petition calling for Brexit to be cancelled has been swamped by bots.The BBC spoke to three cyber-security experts about how likely it is that a number of the 3m signatures gathered so far are not genuine.Each signature requires a unique email address to which a verification link is sent before the vote can be accepted. UK-based voters must also share a valid postcode.
Additionally, while it is possible to buy lists of email addresses stolen in various data breaches on the black market, the owner of the list would still need to access those email accounts and retrieve the validation email before being able to vote in the name of somebody else. "Any significant political decision such as this petition is highly likely to attract bots," she told the BBC.
"They would have to make a bot that signs up with unique email addresses, then clicks the unique link to sign," he said.
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