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by gkop 4033 days ago
If this idea appeals to you, you may also be interested in the 2009 paper Graffiti Networks: A Subversive, Internet-Scale File Sharing Model [0] by Andrew Pavlo.

tl;dr: the researchers discovered that MediaWiki instances were good soft targets.

[0] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/static/slides/graffiti-dc401-o...

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The mini-saga embedded in the presentation was pretty funny

> Concluding Remarks >  Off probation at the end of this semester!

I got put on probation for redirecting my ~/.bash_history to /dev/null and removing my `finger` information with `chfn`. Universities can be pretty ridiculous with their disciplinary actions.
Why... why would redirecting your .bash_history to /dev/null be a punishable offense? I assume it's so they could check for evildoing on your part, but that seems like a ridiculously idiotic way of doing it.
Ah so that's who those weird, mostly spammers are.... Wow.... They used me for data storage, the after school special.