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On the other hand, Wikipedia pages seemingly get "vandalized" all the time and sometimes aren't corrected immediately. Doesn't this create a situation where a
by cuttysnark 4y ago
On the other hand, Wikipedia pages seemingly get "vandalized" all the time and sometimes aren't corrected immediately.
Doesn't this create a situation where a bad actor could change the Wikipedia page for a `semi-popular-brand.com` url listing to something bad? Anyone who used `semi-popular-brand.idk` in that timeframe would land in the bad page. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding.
- gumby 4y agoThis is possible with the DNS already which is why there have been various efforts to try to harden the protocol, to varying effect so far.
- MivLives 4y agoSure but that requires knowledge of DNS, and a bad edit on wikipedia is much more accessible.
- imiric 4y agoAre you saying it's not a good idea to rely on domain lookup from a public wiki? I think you might be onto something...
- 6chars 4y agoMaybe an enhancement would be to have it look at the edit history and use the most recent URL that has remained on the page for at least X hours/days
- l33t233372 4y agoOne challenge with this approach can be seen by considering a scihub takedown followed immediately by a correction to a new TLD. The new(and suddenly correct) address would be changed to an incorrect old address.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y agopop up a warning instead to say there's been churn and let the user pick?
- ranger_danger 4y agoThat would take way too long.