Emufarmers Sangly wrote:
On 10/28/07, Karl Schmidt <karl(a)xtronics.com>
wrote:
Having trouble with bots placing gibberish on our
site. I first want to
understand the why?
It could be :
* They testing or trying to get setup to spam search engine indexes?
* They are measuring the time to rollback?
* Spy code words - pass information anonymously without traceability?
* Want to destroy search engine ranking?
* ??
Anyone have a clear understanding of this?
As near as I can tell, these bots (I would call them vandalbots) are simply
out to maliciously damage wikis,
I'm not sure I agree - the defacement comes regularly from a wide range of IP - I
would
assume a bot net. The defacement often has the same words. I could see this as a way of
passing code words by foreign agents - much to much trouble just for true vandalism. I
suppose the NSA would know about it in that case. By splattering the messages across a
large
number of wikis there would be no meaningful IP trail to the recipient.
A CAPTCHA has stopped it for now...
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