[HCoop-Discuss] Wiki under attack

Clinton Ebadi clinton at unknownlamer.org
Fri Apr 22 19:23:21 EDT 2011


Sajith T S <sajith at hcoop.net> writes:

> Adam Chlipala <adam at chlipala.net> wrote:
>> The HCoop wiki is under attack by spammers who have been very successful 
>> at getting around the content filtering.  In the past, I've taken the 
>> time to revert changes like this manually, but, given the volume this 
>> time, I don't think I have the energy.  Is anyone willing to handle this 
>> and/or propose ways to block the attack in the first place?
>
> How do I get permissions to revert wiki pages to known good versions?

I went ahead and got most of everything, and I think turned off all
write access for non-admin users.

I'll make the wiki writeable again tomorrow and hopefully the defacing
will stop.

-- 
   (1) _Of course_ we made sure it was actually too slow before making
the ugly optimization.
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