On 1/8/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
There's no complex checks involved a vandal can game if they know the details, simply generating a list of all transclusions from a single page and then setting protection for each. Unless the bot does something I'm not understanding, releasing the code gives no loss of security and allows the community to feel a lot more comfortable permitting it.
That's why I don't understand some people are uncomfortable with it. It does something simple and it's not dangerous what exactly do they feel is so scary that the code needs to be released?