[Lincs] Wiki Defacement

Michael Simms michael at linuxgamepublishing.com
Fri Jun 24 14:18:36 BST 2005


Erm, so you could access it, and cos I'm alive right now and it seems
nobody else is, I removed all the crap so you can access it. Good luck
in recovering your data.

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 12:22 +0100, Ben Francis wrote:
> Things like this --> http://lincs.lug.org.uk/wiki make me question my 
> usually optimistic view of the human race. The Commons Problem 
> (http://www.usabilityfirst.com/glossary/term_56.txl) is a serious issue 
> we have to face on the Internet. Never mind people sending too many 
> cattle to graze on a commons area, a piece of scum from the surface of 
> the gene pool just dropped a nuclear bomb on ours!
> 
> I will attempt to decontaminate the area as soon as I'm on an Internet 
> connection without a proxy which blocks the offending content and stops 
> me editing it! I think we've lost quite a lot of data.
> 
> Any suggestions to prevent this in the future? I'm generally against 
> password protecting public spaces.
> 
> Yours sincerely
> 
> Ben
> 
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