On 9 Jan 2009, at 02:57, jamused wrote: > Not sure who to contact about this, but I'm hoping somebody with admin > rights to the TiddlyWiki.org wiki follows this group. Currently > TiddlyWiki.org seems to be the target of some sort of bot that creates > a new user, a page with a random English word as a name, and then > dumps about 170k of gibberish text in the page (not sure what it > is...base64 encoded image or something?).
*sigh* > I've been emptying out the > pages and replacing the text with "delete this page", since I can't > actually delete the pages, thanks for taking this on, or at least putting your finger in the dyke! > but I think somebody should look into > upping the security on creating new users and maybe ban the origin > IPs. The microformats.org wiki has been suffering a similar attack [1], they added the ReCatchpa extension [2] for creating a user, maybe we should do the same, much as I hate to suggest such a horrible thing. Also, pumping changes into irc, as we do with trac, might help us keep an eye on the wiki and encourage more updating. Paul (psd) -- http://blog.whatfettle.com [1] http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2009-January/012755.html [2] http://recaptcha.net/plugins/mediawiki/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWikiDev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
