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> What is to prevent some malicious script kiddie on a mindless joyride
> from determining a good portion of the most useful/popular/used wiki
> sites, determining their editing architecture, and unleashing some
> sort of distributive (to bypass IP security that might be in place for
> the prevention of too many edits from one editor in such and such a
> period of time) attack to mess with their content and links?
>
Good Wiki's can be reverted. If someone fucks them up others can just
revert the contents to the most recent version. It's about the same as
if someone submitted viral code to a lot of opensource project's CVS
trees. Those projects could just pick out the code in question and
revert to a version that didn't have that code in it.
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Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
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