[aprssig] APRS Wiki vandalism
Tom Russo
russo at bogodyn.org
Mon Apr 30 16:23:23 EDT 2007
The APRS wiki at http://info.aprs.net/ appears to have been the victim of
some hit-and-run script vandalism on 19 April 2007.
I've corrected a few of the utterly trivial changes (random removal of plus
signs), but some pages have had almost all of their content removed, often
everything following the first ampersand in the text:
Thu, 19 Apr 2007:
(22:08 Pacific Daylight Time) [history] - APRS Rj3J0r
(21:54 Pacific Daylight Time) [history] - Frequencies Zn9P7y
(21:53 Pacific Daylight Time) [history] - Paths JbfXab
(11:35 Pacific Daylight Time) [history] - ARHAB GzhQjb
(10:59 Pacific Daylight Time) [history] - APRS2ATM JecJge
Unfortunately, the software that's running the wiki doesn't provide a simple
revert mechanism that I can see, so fixing these pages to contain the useful
information that used to be on them is tedious.
The Xastir wiki at http://www.xastir.org/ was also vandalized in April a few
days earlier in much the same way (random missing plus signs and all text
deleted after an ampersand) albeit more aggressively with dozens of vandalism
events over the span of a few days --- leading me to suspect some kind of
automated script by some folks with too much time on their hands. We had to
lock down that wiki to restrict edit privileges.
If anyone has the energy to fix up the broken pages, or point out a way that
"Wikka Wakka Wiki" can be told to revert to previous versions of a page to
undo these edits, have at it.
--
Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
"And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is
one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh,
oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick
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