On 1/8/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)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?