Wikis and Spammers : Venture Chronicles

Wikis and Spammers : Venture Chronicles:

Coincidentally, I have been battling spammers for over a month on another wiki I have, the Web 2.0 in the Enterprise wiki. In the interests of ensuring as much public and unfettered access as possible, this wiki required no registration for updating and spammers were hitting it with startling efficiency and replacing all of the content with links for fake Rolex watches.

Okay, we have 20 years of experience proving that any time you don’t put some kind of protection up on a writable computer, that the hackers and spammers will wander in and destroy it.

So why the hell are people still trying to set up public systems without any kind of authentication?

This isn’t just the same as going on vacation without locking the front door, this is going on vacation and taking the front door off the house before you leave. TV gone when you get back? Gee, what a surprise.

I thought we’d learned this lesson by now? Well, I guess not. Oh well.

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