On 11/10/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com wrote:
It's a fact that there are botnet-operators out there with tens of thousands of computers, and they demand money from websites in exchange for them not being DDoSed. This is not even rare, it's fairly common in this brand new world. What if one of these people wrote a script and installed it on all of their bots so that they register an account and then randomly attack and vandalise articles? I mean, there could be literally thousands of edits flowing in every minute. Not only would this probably make the servers screech to a grinding halt, it would cause huge damage to the content of the site.
Some say this has already occurred and the arms race between the bad idiots and the good idiots is really quite advanced now.
- d.