Script kiddies versus the wiki

For the last few days, some moronic cretin from Russia has started spamming my wiki with pages of random drug sites. Although it is trivial to revert the pages back to their uncorrupted states, getting up and doing this every morning has become sufficiently frustrating that I have decided to enable authorization. Once I have … Continue reading “Script kiddies versus the wiki”

For the last few days, some moronic cretin from Russia has started spamming my wiki with pages of random drug sites. Although it is trivial to revert the pages back to their uncorrupted states, getting up and doing this every morning has become sufficiently frustrating that I have decided to enable authorization. Once I have done this, I will send out an email to all obvious candidates to grant them access.

My frustration with this whole situation has prompted me to post this to the main page of the wiki:

Spammers really are the single greatest threat to the future of our society. Religious terrorists are a distant second place. I formally curse all spammers as follows:

Your children will die of a disease that would have been curable, except that you put such a drain on the internet that the communication needed to discover the cure did not happen.

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