Darius <squeakuser at inglang.com> wrote:
> 
> I thought it would continue to be hacked.
> 
> Could someone leverage Diego's video manipulation classes & 
> Morphic's ability to
> convert text to gif to hack together an "enter the text you 
> see in the graphic"
> security feature? The hardest part would be selecting a range 
> of words.
> 
> Any human could edit a page at any time.

Except for (at the least):
* people who can't see (or see well);
* people who want (or have to) use text-based browsers.

I think that we (I mean whoever maintains the swiki - the admin of the machine) should report this abuse to the relevant ISP, and should, as a temporary measure, ban that IP (at the HTTP level, IP level, it matters not).

MediaWikis have user-maintained blacklists, where you (i.e., users with certain permissions) can ban IPs for periods of time. That might be a nice balance between the (essential!) openness of a wiki and having our wikis abused by bots.

frank


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