Re: Wiki 2FA - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Wiki 2FA
Date
Msg-id 20160125155508.GA506333@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: Wiki 2FA  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Wiki 2FA  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> We had a look at the kind of content that was being posted.  One pattern
> was that they posted a phone number hundreds or thousands of times in
> different pages, with surrouding text stating that the number was the
> support line for some home product (a laser printer, scanner, etc).  No
> URLs at all.  The phone number was the valid number for some poor sod
> who had no relationship at all to the product in question.  (It wasn't a
> single phone number, but it was a very limited amount of numbers.  Maybe
> a dozen, posted in thousands of fake pages, vandalized valid pages,
> posted on user pages, and even on the comments for the wiki changes.)

Eh.  Today I just saw that somebody posted the same kind of content (a
number for support service of a well known Windows antivirus software)
in the bug report form.

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Álvaro Herrera                http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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