[PD] PD WIKKI defaced

[Marc Lavallée]

Le 5 Janvier 2005 19:36, Josh Steiner a écrit :
> actually you dont have to login to edit wikipedia pages at all.  they do
> track the ip address of those who make changes and can temporarily block
> that ip from editing, but that is pretty rare.

Mmhh...

Wikipedia have a minimal security scheme:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page

"Wikipedia is a WikiWiki, which means that anyone can easily edit any 
unprotected article and have those changes posted immediately to that 
page."

Even this complex page is left unprotected, and I was able to edit its html 
code. I'll check later if my changes are still there, and if my IP address 
is listed in:
http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalism_in_progress

This vandalism page is interesting; the page about Quebec was "updated" with 
some nice thoughts: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quebec&oldid=6641378
In this case, the defacer is not some random chinese wiki spammer, but a 
fellow gentleman from Quebec. Go figure...

So the only security is post-publishing review.

-- 
Marc