Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > Oliver Endriss wrote: > > Dominique Dumont wrote: > > > I've also noticed a lot of commercial links at the bottom of the main > > > page (http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page). Shouldn't these > > > parasite links be exterminated ? > > > > Definitely. An as*h*le named Xaxa has hacked these pages: > > > > http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Help:Contents > > http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > > http://linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/LinuxTVWiki:About > > I would guess it was a script which uses random names. "Cd" was > another one used for spamming. Doesn't the software provide some kind of email verification, i.e. one has to provide a valid mail address and reply to a mail message before he can modify pages? Like subscription to a ml. > > Imho the contents need some protection. > > What will happen if script kiddies start applying non-obvious changes? > > That was to be expected. The VDR Wiki has seen more spam, but they > don't require user registration for editing the pages. Spam is obvious and can be removed. I fear that sooner or later someone will apply less obvious modifications which cannot be detected easily. > The bad thing is that even if we remove the spam from the pages it is > still visible in the history and google will pick it up from there. Oops, I assumed that an administrator could simply perform a rollback... Otherwise I would have removed this crap immediately. Oliver -- -------------------------------------------------------- VDR Remote Plugin available at http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/vdr/ --------------------------------------------------------
