More Swiki damage - a weired idea

Martin Drautzburg martin.drautzburg at web.de
Fri Jul 26 22:10:15 UTC 2002


I just had a weired idea, and I haven't thought that to the bitter
end, but anyway, here is how it goes:

If we protect the swiki by a password then the question arises, how we
make the password known to the good guys and hide it from the bad
guys. 

Now how about we put the password into the squeak image.  We could
even hide the password in some sort of smalltalk "riddle" that even a
novice squeaker could solve, like <<create an instance of the Password
class, send it the message #august and inspect the instance variable
"password">>. The riddle could be changed from time to time and the
current riddle could be published on the list. The required classes
could be updated by the usual update mechanism if neccessary.

A potential intruder would have to download squeak and learn a bit of
smalltalk to play with it. Chances are he figures that this is more
rewarding than hacking a swiki, or he may simply fail.




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