This is one of the most interesting things about wikis. There are 
many thousands of them, but vandalism is rare.

Cheers,

Alan

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At 12:39 PM +0000 3/12/02, Peter Crowther wrote:
>  > From: Alan Kay [mailto:Alan.Kay at squeakland.org]
>>  If these swiki pages are editable, then why not just edit them out?
>
>The long-term success of that depends on the tenacity of the authors, and
>whether they revisit and just edit them back in again --- the perennial
>problem with content that is editable by anybody.
>
>Actually, I'm very surprised that the Swiki pages have not previously been
>defaced.  Now that the Swiki has been found, I would expect to see an
>increasing number of attacks once this particular person tells his [I
>assume] mates about it and the information spreads.  Whilst I'm well aware
>that it *may* be an isolated case, we may wish to plan how to 'harden' a
>Swiki against this kind of attack.  Not easy, as the usual trade-off between
>freedom and security raises its head almost immediately.
>
>		- Peter


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