GPS: It appears that yet another page has been '''vandalised''' (see the telnet page).  As the Tcl'ers Wiki has grown I've seen an increased amount of vandalism.  Sadly the world is full of immature people.  Usually I would say go to the source (which is the attacker), but with the current Internet and dynamic IP addresses anonymous attackers can reign.

I have talked with JCW in the past about this and his argument was that "stores have windows, but few people throw bricks through them."  Unfortunately people often don't do the right thing because it's right (and makes it easier on people), but rather because they fear retribution.

'''Never run unknown code from the wiki without going over it.'''  An attacker could modify a wonderful page created by someone trusted (such as RS) and make it delete your files.

'''a solution''': code could be signed with privacy keys, but is it worth the time to implement this... ''-- [ro]'' 

Maybe not, but having Tcl people sign eachother's GPG/PGP keys is not a bad at all.  You guys at the meeting should try and do this, if possible - [davidw].

'''trivial restores''' - this is my pick.  I think logging in is a pain in the $#$@$ (sorta looks like perl, dont it? ;)  It would be easy to make a few people ''helpers''.  These furry little friends would just do the restores.  Its not that often that people vandalise - it might be a bad browser upload or some other technical problem - or just a rough day.  So thats my vote, '''keep the wiki simple => easy to use => dont bog me down in features and logins!'''  I would never have started using this wiki had it logins... you might take that at as a positive or a negative ;P ''-- [ro]''

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