Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Wiki spam

[Karl Goetz]

"Andrew R." <address@hidden> wrote:
> There has been another spam "attack" on the wiki today and yesterday.
> 
> Perhaps the Q&A CAPTCHA needs to be changed (even if it only stops it
> temporarily).

Still happening - I went to revert some pages and new spam was appearing as I 
removed old stuff. I'd suggest at this moment the captchas are no longer an 
effectively deterrent.
I'm slightly bemused that the bots can get around captchas like that, unless 
they are being fed answers by a human.

> Also, the spam on this page cannot be reverted because the word
> "backlinks" is blacklisted:
> http://www.gnewsense.org/Projects/WikiMigrationScript

I can reproduce the server error but don't have access to check it out 
unfortunately.

> Do any other members have suggestions for ways we can stop the spam
> attacks?

Sam - is the moinmoin instance being kept up to date? I can't remember if its a 
custom setup or the packaged version on the system. ( I'm also offering my time 
again if a second sysadmin would be useful again :)).

> Also, I think the wiki has fail2ban on it but I heard it wasn't
> working.

IIRC it never did - it was only ever half implemented and never really lived up 
to its potential. It wasn't as necessary after a while as the captchas were 
doing a reasonable job when we changed away from maths questions.
thanks,
kk