On 24/08/06, Simetrical Simetrical+wikitech@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/24/06, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Suppose some stupid web programmer programmed a forum where you can delete posts with a GET request. If you can fire GET requests to any server from Wikimedia's servers, then the forum's servers will only log Wikimedia's IPs, and the mass-deletion forum vandal is now untraceable.
- Most web programmers aren't that stupid.
Pfft. No, most web programmers are worse.
- Even if they were that stupid, they wouldn't be stupid enough to
allow an IP address completely unknown to their server to do anything bad to it.
Yes they bloody would...
- Even if they were *that* stupid (and we're currently talking
serious, serious stupid), they would have
Would have what?
Rob Church