Re: Spam on the wiki

From: Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, Kevin Grittner <kgrittn(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>, pgsql-www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Spam on the wiki
Date: 2015-12-16 18:38:01
Message-ID: 5671AF89.6050303@kaltenbrunner.cc
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On 12/16/2015 07:12 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> On 12/16/2015 06:29 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 06:28:18PM +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 12/16/2015 09:22 AM, Andres Freund wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2015-12-16 18:21:47 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>>>
>>> Either they've found a way to script-generate gmail addresses, or
>>> they have
>>> found a way to break the django hashes.
>>>
>>>
>>> Or they just hired somebody to do that kind of thing manually. There's
>>> sites for that...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> In the interim, let's just disable edits.
>>>
>>>
>>> New account signups have been temporarily disabled at least. But yes, they
>>> still have all those accounts against the wiki as well.
>>
>> What is the plan for undoing the spam edits?
>
> we are working on that, but we have no final answer yet...

we are currently working on reverting the entire wiki back to a state
before the attack from system backups because it does not seem sensible
to try to revert this in piece meal style.

Stefan

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