On 11/10/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson(a)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.