[Discuss] Wiki Security Risk

David Kramer david at thekramers.net
Fri Jan 31 17:20:00 EST 2014


if "it's not exposed to the world" is known to be a true statement, then
what is he concerned about?

I will say that MediaWiki *is* very hard to lock down  if that statement
is not known to be true.  Most wikis fall into one of two camps:
"Information wants to be free and that's what wikis are for so why would
you want to lock it down?" and "Today's internet is a scary place and
even wikis need access control".  There's not much in the middle.

I LOVE Foswiki for many reasons, but very high on the list is that it
has full user/group authorizations at the system level, the wiki  level,
and at the page level.


On 01/31/2014 01:56 PM, Jeffrey Young wrote:
> I want to implement a Media Wiki at work, but my boss is worried about
> security risks.  To me it seems simple, if it's not exposed to the world,
> what's the problem?  Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
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