[dm-crypt] spammers hitting dm-crypt tikiwiki, what do we do?

[dm-crypt] spammers hitting dm-crypt tikiwiki, what do we do?

[infrabit]

Hi Christophe,

First of let me thank you for a great software. I've started with it not too 
long ago and jumping from article to article, I ended up on 
http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php and I was in shock and frustration 
when I noticed that articles here which are referenced by more or less official 
docs elsewhere (I'm using Gentoo btw) are full of spam.

I've cleaned up as much as I could but I encountered issues with the current 
TikiWiki:
- watch list does not email
- 'rollback' does not show who did it and it doesn't provide a place to comment 
  (this in turn allow spammers to rollback to a version which can be commented 
  as "cleaned up some junk")
- cannot diff between 2 previous versions

This makes it really hard to deal with spammers, and if you look at 
http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-pagehistory.php?page=EncryptedDeviceUsingLUKS 
it's easy to notice that spammers got more time than I do (changes by IP 
131.232.4.41 are mine as well).

Your thoughts?

Thanks,
Viorel

Re: [dm-crypt] spammers hitting dm-crypt tikiwiki, what do we do?

[Milan Broz]

On 10/29/2010 01:35 AM, infrabit@infrabit.net wrote:
> Hi Christophe,
> 
> First of let me thank you for a great software. I've started with it not too 
> long ago and jumping from article to article, I ended up on 
> http://www.saout.de/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php and I was in shock and frustration 
> when I noticed that articles here which are referenced by more or less official 
> docs elsewhere (I'm using Gentoo btw) are full of spam.
> 
> I've cleaned up as much as I could but I encountered issues with the current 
> TikiWiki:
> - watch list does not email
> - 'rollback' does not show who did it and it doesn't provide a place to comment 
>   (this in turn allow spammers to rollback to a version which can be commented 
>   as "cleaned up some junk")
> - cannot diff between 2 previous versions

It seems that on this wiki are more obsolete information besides the spam...

We already moved LUKS page to http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/
I am not sure if this wiki in currently even maintainable (I am not updating
it when releasing new cryptsetup of dm-crypt).

I would prefer someone who maintains page with links to distributions pages
instead of this anarchy & spambot friendly style:-)

Christophe, is there anyone who can maintain and update your wiki?
Currently it is quite confusing (referencing many obsolete information.)
Or better is create new distro-specific page on project page? (Same like new FAQ).

(I am just trying to provide users most accurate information, pointing them
to old pages surely doesn't help. No offence to anyone. But most of changes
to cryptsetup/dm-crypt is done by me currently and I am simple not updating wiki
there...)

Also, most of the discussion about kernel dm-crypt is on dm-devel list and LKML
these days (e.g. the performance issues are problems related to other subsystems
as well - like io schedulers or fs/vfs code, so we need more people to discuss it).

(This list covers mainly user & cryptsetup questions.)

Milan