[WikiEN-l] Shock site bot

[geni]

On 11/3/05, Brett Gustafson <brett.gustafson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently recieved this message from a user:
> "I'm a regular wikipedia user although i don't have an account here. I think
> this site is great and it really helps me with my college work. But I
> recently heard of these people that were talking about wikipedia that they
> were all programming a hack for it. So after a little while I found it was a
> spider to hunt down all the pages links and change them to shocks site links
> or something along those lines. I didn't know who to tell so I just thought
> I'd tell an administrator as they might know who to tell or what to do. Just
> giving an advanced warning so you might be able to do something to protect
> this wonderful resourse. Apparently they permenantly change their ip address
> using some thing (a bit beyond me). Something like that. I just didn't know
> what to do. I hope I didn't embaress myself here. Thanks for your time."
>
> Brett

We get these kind of things sent to us all the time most don't amount
to anything. For a number of reasons I would not expect that style of 
attack to be effective.
--
geni