Oskar Sigvardsson wrote:
On 10/11/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/11/06, Oskar Sigvardsson oskarsigvardsson@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
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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