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In addition to preformatting new Agora subpages, I can also identify javascript needed in order for the Agora link to appear in the left menu frame. __[[User:Meco|meco]] ([[User talk:Meco|talk]]) 16:42, 9 April 2016 (UTC) | In addition to preformatting new Agora subpages, I can also identify javascript needed in order for the Agora link to appear in the left menu frame. __[[User:Meco|meco]] ([[User talk:Meco|talk]]) 16:42, 9 April 2016 (UTC) | ||
: The administration and BoyWiki techs do our best to keep BoyWiki secure. As far as I know, only the original software programmers and BoyWiki admins can add JS to BoyWiki. '''NO site is 100 percent safe''' from hackers and people with bad intentions. You have to decide what risk you are willing to take. Even TOR and other percussions will not keep you 100 percent safe... the only safe way to use the internet is not to use it at all. BoyWiki is no more or less safe then any other site on the internet. --[[Etenne]] [[File:BLSmileyface.png|50 px|link=Etenne]] 17:34, 9 April 2016 (UTC) | |||
== News articles on FBI "click this link" pornography stings == | == News articles on FBI "click this link" pornography stings == | ||
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Agora/9 April 2016
Does javascript at BoyWiki compromise user security
Recent conversation between myself and User4 (and briefly including Etenne) has made it apparent that BoyWiki uses javascript to assist in formatting Agora subpages upon their creation. With a user base as sensitive to security issues and the preservation of anonymity as that of BoyWiki, is it at all responsible on the part of the site operators to lay as a premise for smooth interfacing with the website that users have javascript enabled?
I just wonder if it is at all conceivable that such a script could e.g. request the user's computer to disgorge its current IP address and submit it to some nefarious recipient. From previous discussions at Agora I have come to understand that the technical knowhow of the wiki operators is not always up to par, so perhaps they also wouldn't know the answer to that hypothetical.
Perhaps it would be prudent not to base any user interactions on the use of javascript?
In addition to preformatting new Agora subpages, I can also identify javascript needed in order for the Agora link to appear in the left menu frame. __meco (talk) 16:42, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
- The administration and BoyWiki techs do our best to keep BoyWiki secure. As far as I know, only the original software programmers and BoyWiki admins can add JS to BoyWiki. NO site is 100 percent safe from hackers and people with bad intentions. You have to decide what risk you are willing to take. Even TOR and other percussions will not keep you 100 percent safe... the only safe way to use the internet is not to use it at all. BoyWiki is no more or less safe then any other site on the internet. --Etenne
17:34, 9 April 2016 (UTC)
News articles on FBI "click this link" pornography stings
- http://www.cnet.com/news/fbi-posts-fake-hyperlinks-to-snare-child-porn-suspects/
- http://www.queerty.com/fbi-arrests-anyone-who-even-clicks-on-child-porn-fair-20090327
Google:
- pornography web link sting
