[SATLUG] Re: SATLUG Digest, Vol 38, Issue 54 wiki hacking and a proposed countermeasure

[Sean Carolan]

> I am not security expert (but but I am a geeky military veteran) but it seems
> to me that if we limit the IP's to those in the Western Hemisphere would we
> not deny trafic to our souldier serving overseas in the Eastern Hemisphere.
> Also (and I know this is gonna sound all preachy but...) by secluding our
> site to the western hemisphere seems to go againsts the linux ethic about the
> free flow of information.  I don't kow maybe its just me but it just feels
> wrong to blacklist half of the planet like that.

Can we simply deny edit access to half the planet, but still allow
them to read the pages?  MediaWiki seems to have a lot of access
controls:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings#Access

You may not need to use IPTables to block these folks entirely.