They turned my JSPWiki into a pr0n site
Remember the days when Wikis were the next great open collaboration tool? They were supposed to shepherd in the long promised era of open collaborative knowledge sharing. Wikis around the Net loudly proclaimed “You can edit this page!” A wikis’ commumity would “police themselves”and the karmic goodness of the Open Collaboration would keep evil spammers at bay. Of course they had previously made a mess of smtp, forums and bulletin boards. In 2007, it’s really hard to find an open Wiki. Wikipedia had learned the lessons of the open wiki love fest. Want to edit an Apache Software Foundation Confluence wiki? You better have a SLA on file with ASF, Mofo. Into this enviroment, I make a half-@ssed attempt to set up a JSPWiki webapp. It was supposed to be a tutorial wiki for GhettoJava.I installed and promptly forgot about it over a year ago. Don’t know what inspired me to check on it a few weeks back but when I did: Whoa Nelly! Girls Girls Girls! It was incredible. I had images, movies and lots of flashy text from all the various pr0n sub-genres. Apparently there must be a worm or something going around seeking out the standard wiki urls and attempting to overwrite them with … pr0n. I’ll admit that when I first saw it I wasn’t in a big hurry to delete it the thing, it was as if someone had giving a big free online stash. I quickly snapped out of my daze when I realized that all the images and links must be going somewhere. Anything I clicked on would be an alert to the spammer mothership that another sucker Wiki had been activated on The Node. I don’t have a lot of time for bs so I ended up doing rm -rf /pathto/JSPWiki. Anywayz, I managed to turn the tables somewhat and have since been making a little loot off it. What about you fellahs and ladies? Anyone else’s Wiki got hit like mine?
Laterz,
GJ