http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/swiki is also hacked !

Joseph

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Guzdial" <guzdial at cc.gatech.edu>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list" 
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Cc: "Swiki Central" <swiki-bugs at cc.gatech.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: Squeak Wiki - hacked big time!! & continuing to be hacked


> Folks, we're not the only ones getting hacked -- WikiSpam is rampant among 
> Wikis right now (e.g., http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiSpam). 
> This is a problem with the medium.  We can require user authentication to 
> edit, but we'll dramatically changing the culture of the Squeak Swiki.  We 
> can do that, but we'd like to explore other options first.
>
> If you'd like to help, may I remind you that Swiki is an open source 
> project?  The source is at http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/swiki  If you have 
> an idea for a good solution to WikiSpam, please do implement it and share 
> your fix with the Swiki community.  I just did a Google search, and there 
> are 260,000 hits on "swiki," so the value/utility of fixes to Swiki that 
> help with WikiSpam is pretty darn high -- there are lots of people who can 
> use good Swiki fixes!
>
> Thanks!
> Mark
>
> On Dec 8, 2004, at 11:39 AM, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>
>> Mark Guzdial wrote:
>>> We're working on solutions, but in the meantime, why not just fix it?
>>> It took me approximately ten seconds to repair page 2979.
>>>
>>> Mark
>>
>> Other pages are affected too. Please click on the 'changes' button and 
>> you
>> will see the effect.
>>
>> Hannes
>>
>>
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