[PEAK] Wiki defacement; should we lock down?
Phillip J. Eby
pje at telecommunity.com
Fri Nov 19 21:47:58 EST 2004
We had another Wiki defacement today; this one was a script kiddie rather
than a spammer, who deleted the entire IntroToPeak front page, trying to
upload some PHP to hack into the machine.
I fixed the damage (AFAICT), but I wonder if perhaps we should move to a
"registered users only" security policy. An awful lot of the Wiki editing
that takes place these days consists of spammers adding links, and us
taking them back down. Going registration-only would fix a lot of this,
but at the cost of losing the ability for people to casually edit and comment.
What do you guys think?
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