Re: [livecode] after another attack

From: Julian Rohrhuber <rohrhuber_at_uni-hamburg.de>
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 16:35:01 +0100

>On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 15:29:55 +0100, Julian Rohrhuber wrote
>> >On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 12:19, Dave Griffiths wrote:
>> >> this is happening to the runme wiki too:
>> >> http://projects.dorkbot.org/rd04/wiki/WorkInProgress
>> >>
>> >> :(
>> >>
>> >> oddly it doesn't seem to affect most other wiki engines.
>> >
>> >I'm halfway through making a nice raid pair for the server that
>> >toplap.org is on, I'll move to a different wiki engine as part of the
>> >process. It might not fix the problem completely but it will allow it
>> >to be fixed, as the CGI::Wiki::Kwiki I now favour is nicely architected
>> >and a doddle to modify.
>> >
>> >There's also a bot that keeps subscribing itself to this list, spamming
>> >it with a phishing scam, then unsubscribing itself again. Bah! We're
>> >under attack!
>>
>> the internet gets bad weather currently, not a good time for
>> picknick. Everywhere the ships close the hatches.
>>
>> The swiki seems still to be ok. I think one trick is to render a
>> button into the page for "new page" etc. as the bots will try out
>> links only.
>
>the wiki wot my mate wrote (in a page of php) seems to be spam free so far too
>on our site http://www.pawfal.org
>
>another one to check out, according to the recent slashdot article on wikis,
>is mediawiki: http://wikipedia.sourceforge.net/ which is the basis of the
>wikipedia.

I think generally it would be good to have a wiki that has only a small set
of special syntax and in which pages can be called any name and be
renamed later. But security is the main point right now I guess.
-- 
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Received on Tue Nov 02 2004 - 15:35:19 GMT

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