Could someone please look at http://wikisource.org/wiki/Shitstorm . I don't have the technical expertise to evaluate what User:Goat-see (a suspicious name?) has done, but it looks like a program for sending out some kind of vandalism or virus on a large scale. If so, we need to consider what to do with this kind of thing, but first I would like a more informed opinion of just what that piece of source code does.
Ec
It's a script that "crapflood[s] the fucking shit out of a Slashcode site", it is actually historically significant because there was quite an uproar about it at the time, and the project got deleted off sourceforge ( the same people who own slashdot). Though hosting it on source might not proove good for the project.
I dont think that it can flood slashdot sites anymore, they must have fixed the voulnerability after the initial relese.
On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 11:14:28 -0700, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Could someone please look at http://wikisource.org/wiki/Shitstorm . I don't have the technical expertise to evaluate what User:Goat-see (a suspicious name?) has done, but it looks like a program for sending out some kind of vandalism or virus on a large scale. If so, we need to consider what to do with this kind of thing, but first I would like a more informed opinion of just what that piece of source code does.
Ec
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On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:54:21 +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
It's a script that "crapflood[s] the fucking shit out of a Slashcode site", it is actually historically significant because there was quite an uproar about it at the time, and the project got deleted off
That sounds as though it might be worthy of a stubby reference in WP... not the kind of source material Wikisource should be accepting with no discussion or preamble (is it referenced by any other WM project? not on ENWP, afaict). I blanked the page for now. What's the process for handling inappropriate wikisource content?
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On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:54:21 +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason avarab@gmail.com wrote:
It's a script that "crapflood[s] the fucking shit out of a Slashcode site", it is actually historically significant because there was quite an uproar about it at the time, and the project got deleted off
That sounds as though it might be worthy of a stubby reference in WP... not the kind of source material Wikisource should be accepting with no discussion or preamble (is it referenced by any other WM project? not on ENWP, afaict). I blanked the page for now. What's the process for handling inappropriate wikisource content?
Before I made an issue of it at Wikisource, I wanted to bring it here to the Wikitech list to make sure that it was what I thought it was. Simply deleting something that I did not understand on a technical level would have been inappropriate. This is a recent article and an orphan, and would only have been found by chance. Had the contributor used a more normal title and user name I might never have noticed since I never go into this segment where I understand very little of the code. This kind of problem is fortunately not common at Wikisource, but the incident will certainly be raised on the Scriptorium now that I know better what it is.
Ec
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