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Well done, it's finally over
Thanks! For my next trick, I'll solve systemic racism by turning my logo black for a month.
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> but at some point a state based cyber attack that just wipes wikipedia off the net is deeply damaging to our modern society’s ability to agree on common facts Haven't we hit that point already with bad faith (and potentially government-run) coordinated editing and voting campaigns, as both Wales and Sanger have been pointing out for a while now? See, for example, * Sanger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Larry_S…
> Haven't we hit that point already with bad faith (and potentially government-run) coordinated editing […] campaigns, Yes, this is a real phenomenon. See, for instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Wikipedia%E2%80%93... : the examples from 2006 are funny, and the article's subject matter just gets sadder and sadder as the chronology goes on. > and voting campaigns I'm not sure what you mean by this. Wik…
See the public phab ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419143 In short, a Wikimedia Foundation account was doing some sort of test which involved loading a large number of user scripts. They decided to just start loading random user scripts, instead of creating some just for this test. The user who ran this test is a Staff Security Engineer at WMF, and naturally they decided to do this test under their highly…
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If you're using wikipedia to "agree on common facts" I think you might have bigger problems...
Not the GP, and I don't believe in the existence of "common facts" in general, but Wikipedia is indeed a good place to figure out what other people might agree as common facts...
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Yes, this. That same engineer shouldn’t have a pocket nuclear trigger shaped just like their key fob, either. Humans are predictable.
Aren’t staff part of engineering leadership?
See the public phab ticket: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T419143 In short, a Wikimedia Foundation account was doing some sort of test which involved loading a large number of user scripts. They decided to just start loading random user scripts, instead of creating some just for this test. The user who ran this test is a Staff Security Engineer at WMF, and naturally they decided to do this test under their highly…
this is just us playing on the computer, we got b0mbz
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This is a pretty egregious failure for a staff security engineer
As a staff, you don't even imagine what his salary is for screwing up like that. That being said, interesting to see how salaries skyrocketed over the years: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie... but not that much for engineering.
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There doesn’t seem to be an ulterior motive beyond “Muahaha, see the trouble I can cause!”
A classical virus, from the good old days. None of this botnet/bitcoin mining in the background nonsense.