[Engineering] Phabricator spam - account approval requirement enabled

[Ryan Kaldari]

Hey Greg,
Thanks for the update. Should we go head and start manually reverting the
vandalism where we see it or is there any possibility of rolling everything
back to before the attack?

On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 10:57 PM Giuseppe Lavagetto <
glavagetto at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 1, 2018 at 7:16 AM Niharika Kohli <nkohli at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 8:53 PM Greg Grossmeier <greg at wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Unfortunately we are experiencing spam in our Phabricator instance
>>> again and have decided to turn on the requirement for new account
>>> approval by Phabricator admins as a mitigation step.
>>>
>>
>> I'd request that it please be kept on until we have some spam mitigation
>> tools. At the very least easier revert actions.
>>
>>
> Indeed.
> We should *not* remove the approval process until a better anti-vandalism
> system is available for phabricator.
>
> Repairing the damage that has been done will require a ton of man-hours.
>
> Cheers,
> Giuseppe
> --
> Giuseppe Lavagetto
> Senior Technical Operations Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
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