[Systems] Pootle Spam

Korakurider korakurider at gmail.com
Wed Oct 13 00:33:58 EDT 2010


On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Korakurider <korakurider at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Chris Leonard
> <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Unfortunately, I believe we are seeing our first linkspam attack on Pootle.
>>
>> This user:
>> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/accounts/frannyberry/


>>
>> frannyberry at writeme.com
>
> We see more attacks from another spammer
> http://translate.sugarlabs.org/accounts/frannyberry/ who have

  sorry wrong name.
 http://translate.sugarlabs.org/accounts/nobody/


> submitted suggestions to Japanese project like following:
> ------
> j6fJvn <a href="ht()t()p://incqaoqkbolc.com/">incqaoqkbolc</a>,
> [url=http://cvklxnuktpqn.com/]cvklxnuktpqn[/url],
> [link=http://qkbcdfhfsxgz.com/]qkbcdfhfsxgz[/link],
> http://voiyqhiubitl.com/
>
> Mb1uIL <a href="http://qftftwladgft.com/">qftftwladgft</a>,
> [url=http://mgohccaavslc.com/]mgohccaavslc[/url],
> [link=http://dmcuplsreuyk.com/]dmcuplsreuyk[/link],
> http://jdrntpomsmik.com/
>
> 5Xs8Ei <a href="http://skxftizgrors.com/">skxftizgrors</a>,
> [url=http://xkhiisxrspat.com/]xkhiisxrspat[/url],
> [link=http://xrvxmsssuwem.com/]xrvxmsssuwem[/link],
> http://khudbzdldzhy.com/
> ------
>
>
>> Pootle does not give a convenient contributions and rollback capability like
>> MediaWiki.  Does anyone have a suggestion on how we should handle this?  As
>> a pootle admin, I can delete this account, but I am concerned it might just
>> come back under a new name, so I haven't done that yet.  The priv to submit
>> is not always granted on every project, it is basically up to the language
>> admins.
>
> I as Japanese admin grant no priv to the spammer, but that couldn't
> prevent vandal by suggestion, though I can review every contribution
> and reject wrong ones.
>
> /korakurider
>
>>
>> I'm hoping we can come up with a countervandalism strategy before this gets
>> much worse.  Suggestions are needed.
>>
>> cjl
>>
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