From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Brett Gustafson
Sent: Thursday, 3 November 2005 11:23
To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Shock site bot
...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.
There's something about this message that doesn't quite ring true to me (and
no, it's not the Nigerian spelling), but in case it's genuine, it doesn't
seem to be much of a threat - anything like this is going to be noticed very
quickly, the IP address swiftly blocked, and the pages repaired.
In case it is somehow programmed to be resistant to our normal defence
measures, then maybe we could have a white-hat robot searching for the links
inserted by the black-hat and reverting them.
Peter (Skyring)