If you don’t watch out.
From ComputerWorld…
November 06, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- Malware writers have used a Wikipedia article and special storage features to attempt to plant malicious code on unsuspecting users' systems, the online encyclopedia's organizers have confirmed.
The incident took advantage of Wikipedia's policy of openness, which allows anyone to create and modify articles. The attackers created a Wikipedia page that promised a Windows security update for a supposedly new version of the Lovesan/W32.Blaster worm and pointed to an external site with the seemingly authentic domain wikipedia-download.org.
Wikipedia editors quickly identified and deleted the article, according to a report from German news organization Heise. However, the attackers had used a Wikipedia feature that archives all previous versions of articles when changes have been made.
The malicious page thus continued to exist in the archive, and the attackers were able to point to it in mass e-mails, according to Heise.
The e-mails used Wikipedia's logo and said that Microsoft Corp. had asked Wikipedia to assist with hosting the patch during a supposed Lovesan/W32.Blaster outbreak.
Wikipedia confirmed it has now deleted the archived versions of the malicious article. Wikipedia-download.org also leads to a dead end.
In August, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, addressing the Wikimania conference, acknowledged growing problems for the encyclopedia around accuracy and malicious edits, and promised to improve quality. The English version of Wikipedia passed 1 million entries this year.
Jeez.
I mean I like Wikipedia, and I use it (with due skepticism) often. But honestly, the worst thing I ever got from my Britannica was a paper cut and the occasional embarrassingly spontaneous pre-teen tumescence when poring over the vaguely naughty bits.
Which says less about the venerable Encyclopedia than it does about the way guys are wired.
Also as many times as I have opened a wiki entry online, I have never once been greeted with the heft, the slightly nubbled surface and the scent of the unmistakably-autumnal-yet-delicately-sweet perfume of the weighty tomes of my youth.
Which makes me all wistful and nostalgic for about a minute, until I realize that everything from high-quality porn to James Wolcott to killer split-pea soup recipes are available to me at my fingertips, 24/7/365, for free, in the comfort of castle driftglass regardless of the weather.
And then I get the fuck over it.
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Ahh, Jen's split pea soup recipe, made a pot of it last week, had it all week long, and made another pot of it just now, and I still want more!
As for the Wikipedia, the primary problem with it is that I'll be looking up some essential fact, and suddenly realize that it's 3 hours later and I'm reading about aborted Argentinian commando attacks on Gibraltar during the Falklands war. Also, Britannica doesn't even have an entry on Digi Charat, or kitten huffing so how can it be exhaustive?
Also, Britannica doesn't even have an entry on Digi Charat, or kitten huffing so how can it be exhaustive?
Nor Tierra del Fuego's snuff film industry, but I think the word you're looking for is "exhausting" :-)
...or folks can browse the web using OS's that don't let you install malware quite so readily, e.g., Mac, Linux, etc.
Then you can insure that the only naughty bits you get are the ones you want...
And of course, a good rule of thumb is to download nothing for Windows unless it comes directly from the MicroSoft website, and ignore all e-mails telling you to go somewhere for an update. The newest versions of M$ software automatically let you know when you need to update!
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