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Baseball goes deep to tighten online security
Major league Baseball's AllStar Gane has been taking great pains to make sure fans don't hack, hack, hack for the home team.
As voting to pick this year's players gets under way - the first round of balloting was posted online last week - AllStar officials hope to double online response, but without a repeat of an incident that occurred last season. That's when a fan from Carver, Mass., tried to stuff 39,000 votes for Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra through the online balloting system.
"Baseball, clearly coming off last year's issue, was concerned about this," said Tim O'Mara, senior vice president of operations at SeasonTicket.com Inc. in Bellevue, Wash., which is in charge of this year's electronic tabulations.
"This site's high-profile and we know it,"...