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

M.-A. Lemburg mal at python.org
Wed Jul 24 20:28:57 CEST 2013


I don't think we want to go for that solution...

https://www.authentic8.com/what/

On 17.07.2013 08:52, Michael Foord wrote:
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> Begin forwarded message:
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>> 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
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>> Hi folks,
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>> First, thanks for all your hard work. We're a Python shop.
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>> 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.
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>> All the best,
>> Blaisep
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>> ---------- 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>
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>> i'm not against this at all.  
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>> 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:
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>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/WikiAttack2013
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>> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/SecurityIncident2012
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>> It seems like they could benefit from having their contributors (or at least their admins) use Silo for making changes....
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>> Do we know anyone there? (I know someone at Debian now, thanks to Jay).
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>> -Blaise
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>> -- 
>> Blaise Pabón
>> blaise at authentic8.com
>> +1 650 450 4220 voice
>> +1 877 774 5283 fax
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>> -- 
>> authentic8
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>> scott petry
>> 650-918-6667
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>> -- 
>> Blaise Pabón
>> blaise at authentic8.com
>> +1 650 450 4220 voice
>> +1 877 774 5283 fax
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