This isn't exactly news, but I was always assuming that Drupal people are a bit more honest and reliable. Turns out that I am pretty naïve.
As you know, we have these fancy download stats, thanks to a lot of people's work. On occassion, there are some troubles with them, and then Brandon looks at them in detail. Today, we blocked an IP which was requesting updates very often and with a lot of different keys. Either somebody's Drupal site is broken in a bad way, or somebody was trying to tweak the stats. We can't decide this based on the data we have, but if you find you don't get updates anymore, you probably should check your setup.
The real bummer was however, when Brandon started to specifically look for requests that were only out to game the stats for certain modules.
He found a module that reported several thousand sites using it, where almost all of the reports came from the same IP address.
