[WikiEN-l] "Doomsday" threat?

[Neil Harris]

Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
> On 10/11/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 10/11/06, Oskar Sigvardsson <oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> In such an event, what would we do? Semi-protect the entire
>>> encyclopedia? Lock the database and quickly install a version control
>>> thing, like the germans? Is there anything else? Let's face it,
>>> wikipedia is a high-profile target, we need to consider such things.
>>>
>>> --Oskar
>>>       
>> [[WP:BEANS]]
>>     
>
> Ohh, no, there can't possibly be any bad person in the world who has
> ever heard of a DDoS attack! They don't exist! Infact, I just invented
> the term!
>
>   
>> But we don have quite a number of different defence options that would
>> handle the senario you talk about.
>>     
>
> Like what? This is what I was wondering about. In such an event, is
> there any way to defend ourselves and still be the same encyclopedia.
>   
Given that these mailing lists are available to be read by potential 
adversaries, it's probably not a good idea to speculate here about what 
those countermeasures might be...

-- Neil