I was watching connections into my server today when I saw a
linkspammer connect to one of my wikis. I headed to that wiki,
expecting to see pages defaced as normal, but was surprised to find
them intact--until I checked the configuration and realized that the
particular wiki they had tried to connect to had anonymous edits
turned off.
That's when I had an idea.
The basic idea is to set up a honeypot wiki. This would probably be a
copy of a real wiki to make it as realistic as possible. Then add a
special page to list all anonymous IPs that have ever edited the wiki,
and use that information to maintain block lists on other wikis.
There should probably be warnings plastered all over it so that human
users know not to edit the wiki anonymously.
Does this seem like a good idea?
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Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon <brent(a)brentdax.com>
Perl and Parrot hacker