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Matasano Chargen: The Wikipedia Advertising Vulnerability And How Not To Mess It Up

  • dre · 1 year ago
    Register a Wikipedia account. Do not try to do this anonymously, and note that you will gain privacy from having a Wikipedia account; “anonymous” editors are identified by their IP addresses

    Hey cool, then anybody can WikiScanner their IP's or the content pages
  • Thomas Ptacek · 1 year ago
    That's true, but a company promo page on WP is far more likely to be deleted if it's created by an anoynmous IP address.
  • Matt · 1 year ago
    I like the lists on your userpage. I would add NDSS and CCS to the venues -- if you don't glance over their proceedings every now and then, you're missing out.
  • Thomas Ptacek · 1 year ago
    Network and Distributed System Security? It doesn't even have an article! You should go add one. Even a 2 sentence stub is far more valuable than nothing.
  • dre · 1 year ago
    I noticed a lack of CitySec in your Smaller Recurring Venues.

    Speaking of which... why is it down and when will it be back up? Why am I in Phoenix? Where are Vinnie Liu and Rich Mogull? How do I invoke their powers?
  • Thomas Ptacek · 1 year ago
    Thanks for the heads-up. It's back.
  • Jeremiah Blatz · 1 year ago
    Speaking of CitySec, why is the "next" NYSec hard-coded on the NYSec homepage? It might give the impression that it doesn't happen anymore. (It does, right?)
  • Chris_B · 1 year ago
    Now see this is part of why I keep coming back to Matasano. The article looks perfectly reasonable and the knife to someone's eye doesn't come till the end.