Squeak Swiki Destructive Grafitti

John Hinsley johnhinsley at telinco.co.uk
Thu Jul 11 14:15:17 UTC 2002


On Thursday 11 Jul 2002 3:03 pm, Ned Konz wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 July 2002 01:26 pm, John Hinsley wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 Jul 2002 8:51 pm, David Brown wrote:
> > > It seems that the "grafitti" that has been appearing on the Swiki
> > > is getting worse and worse.  The front page has been getting
> > > mangled over the last couple of days.
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there a good solution to this?  Should at least the front page
> > > be locked down?
> >
> > Can we trace where it's coming from?
>
> We have IP addresses. Look at:
> http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1.history

The server is timing out on me, but I'll take a look into it later.

These guys are not exactly major league crackers -- in the past we've been 
able to trace them and Mark has had a few words in a few ears. Failing that 
it should be easy enough to get the gatech sysops to block that address.

Cheers

John






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