David Gerard wrote:
On 11/10/06, Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Given that these mailing lists are available to be read by potential adversaries, it's probably not a good idea to speculate here about what those countermeasures might be...
One important point that escapes many is that when you try to explain "it's a website the readers can edit", some people immediately go OH NOEZ and list every obvious reason it can't possibly work and the enterprise is provably doomed. Wikipedia cannot possibly work in theory.
Yet somehow it keeps working, pretty much. This is because every single one of the doomsday scenarios has happened and keeps happening and we've learnt to deal with them as part of the normal course of events.
We've even learned to cope with the chronically paranoid.
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