Re: [foaf-dev] FOAF site - unscheduled downtime

Henry Story <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.rdfweb
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 17 Sep 2010, at 13:02, Kingsley Idehen wrote:

> On 9/17/10 7:03 AM, Henry Story wrote:
>> On 17 Sep 2010, at 00:07, Dan Brickley wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> I've disabled wiki.foaf-project.org for now. When it comes back up,
>>> I'll make it 'read only' except for those of us in FOAF club. Quite
>>> how we define that I'm open to suggestions. But first rule of FOAF
>>> club - don't be a spammer! Everything else is a nice extra. I think
>>> it's time to eat our own dogfood here, so I'll be revisiting
>>> 
>>> http://danbri.org/words/2009/10/25/504
>>>  and looking around for other
>>> sources of trusted openids and webids too.
>>> 
>> Just WebID enable it. By the time spammers catch onto WebID you'll
>> have a couple of years of peace :-)
>> 
>> Henry
>> 
>> Social Web Architect
>> 
>> http://bblfish.net/
>> 
> Henry,
> 
> I don't think spammers can really do anything about WebID. I need an example of how they could thwart it etc..

Well I mean that initially one could just allow people access who have a WebID, without even
looking at their Social Network. If they have a WebID at this point, and for the next year or
so you are guaranteed that they are intelligent and ahead of their time, which spammers tend 
not to be. 

At that point adding policies will of course be necessary, and should in fact be developed
before.

> 
> My mission is to kill SPAM, completely, so I am eager to be presented with scenarios Spammers could exploit. Note, I assume a world where policies complement WebID .

Completely agree: you need policies to complement WebID as it at it's core only gives you a URI.
But at least you have that URI securely, and reliably.

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> 
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