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quite sure this is accurate now - the attacks may not have been within a week of launch, but they were certainly within a month, and just before Recyclopedia was taken down by the traffic they created
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A '''vandalbot''' is a malicious wiki bot that acts like a human [[vandalism|vandal]], to [[blank]], [[revert]] or [[garble]] page titles and content. Vandalbots may cause [[denial of service attack|denial of service]] and heavy server load. | A '''vandalbot''' is a malicious wiki bot that acts like a human [[vandalism|vandal]], to [[blank]], [[revert]] or [[garble]] page titles and content. Vandalbots may cause [[denial of service attack|denial of service]] and heavy server load. | ||
Several typical vandalbot attacks were launched against [[Recyclopedia]] (which is based on [[GetWiki]]) in its first month of operation: these would blank pages and move them to random titles to maximize the difficulty of undoing the damage or tracking references to those pages. After several such attacks, the service exceeded its bandwidth limit, and the operators, discouraged, declined to volunteer for such abuse again. Many hours of time advertising and working on Recyclopedia publicity were wasted, and those interested in democratic and open means of operation were discouraged. This served only the purposes of those promoting highly centralized [[power structure]]s, e.g. [[Wikimedia]], and there is strong circumstantial evidence that those with access to bot technology via [[Wikipedia]] activity were responsible for these criminal acts. | |||
The [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] must take a strong stand against the use of vandalbots or [[crapflood]] techniques to resolve political issues. If it is targetted by such tactics, it must be able to respond legally, politically and technologically in tandem, to stay as resilient as possible. | The [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] must take a strong stand against the use of vandalbots or [[crapflood]] techniques to resolve political issues. If it is targetted by such tactics, it must be able to respond legally, politically and technologically in tandem, to stay as resilient as possible. | ||