[pydotorg-www] Fwd: Courtesy accounts for victims of the Wiki attack?

Michael Foord michael at voidspace.org.uk
Wed Jul 17 08:52:26 CEST 2013



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Blaise Pabon <blaise at authentic8.com>
> Subject: Fwd: Courtesy accounts for victims of the Wiki attack?
> Date: 16 July 2013 23:40:40 EEST
> To: webmaster at python.org
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> First, thanks for all your hard work. We're a Python shop.
> 
> Second, I was reading about the damage from the moin attack and realized I had something to contribute, so I got the green light to create complimentary Authentic8 accounts for maintainers (or any other privileged users) to limit exposure to the wiki.
> 
> All the best,
> Blaisep
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Scott Petry-work <scott at authentic8.com>
> Date: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:50 PM
> Subject: Re: Courtesy accounts for victims of the Wiki attack?
> To: Blaise Pabon <blaise at authentic8.com>
> Cc: Jay Sorg <jsorg at authentic8.com>, Ramesh Rajagopal <ramesh at authentic8.com>, Jim Grandy <jgrandy at authentic8.com>
> 
> 
> i'm not against this at all.  
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Blaise Pabon <blaise at authentic8.com> wrote:
> I was reading about the attack on the Debian and the Python wiki's:
> 
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/WikiAttack2013
> 
> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/SecurityIncident2012
> 
> It seems like they could benefit from having their contributors (or at least their admins) use Silo for making changes....
> 
> Do we know anyone there? (I know someone at Debian now, thanks to Jay).
> 
> -Blaise
> 
> -- 
> Blaise Pabón
> blaise at authentic8.com
> +1 650 450 4220 voice
> +1 877 774 5283 fax
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> authentic8
> 
> scott petry
> 650-918-6667
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Blaise Pabón
> blaise at authentic8.com
> +1 650 450 4220 voice
> +1 877 774 5283 fax
> 


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