[aprssig] APRS Wiki vandalism

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 11:26:31AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 05:29:40PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> > > From: Tom Russo [mailto:russo at bogodyn.org]
> > > To: aprssig at lists.tapr.org
> > > Sent: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:23:23 -0700
> > > Subject: [aprssig] APRS Wiki vandalism
> > > 
> > > The APRS wiki at http://info.aprs.net/ appears to have been the victim of
> > > some hit-and-run script vandalism on 19 April 2007.
> 
> Today I discovered that just about every single page on the APRS wiki at
> info.aprs.net was trashed --- all replaced by link spam, all real content
> removed.
> 
> I am in the process of trying to restore it, but I have to conclude that
> the wiki is in a terrible way and needs to be replaced by a more secure,
> less open version.
> 
> Migrating to MediaWiki and locking it down so that sysops have to approve
> new users would be my change of choice.
> 
> As it is, the wiki has pretty much been rendered useless, as it requires manual
> clean up every few days.  Today's vandalism is so severe that it will take
> a long time to fix.  They even trashed the "RecentChanges" page that makes
> clean-up easier (I've restored it).

It is very difficult to do some of this clean-up.  Some of the vandalism
was done in so many individual edits (obviously scripted) that WikkaWakkaWiki
won't show me enough of the old versions to get back to a good one.


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Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
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