[Wikipedia-l] Re: multi-headed VANDALS + PANIC button

[Stephen Gilbert]

> I agree that hard security leads to an arms race.
> But leaving the 
> Wikipedia as a "soft target" with apparently magical
> self-healing 
> properties should make the experience no fun for
> script kiddies:
> * they see that "vandalism" is easy, and no
> challenge
> * they should also see (eventually) that it is
> futile
> 
> Neil

I completely agree. The people over at MeatballWiki
have spent a lot of time developing and discussing
wiki security:

http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?SoftSecurity 
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?OnWikisAndSecurity

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