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Job Board Spammed

Benjamin Wittes
Saturday, October 13, 2012, 5:17 PM
Well, that didn't take long. Yesterday, I posted a wiki job board on Lawfare so that people who are hiring in the field of national security law could reach those looking for work in the field. I expected that eventually, we would need to clean up some spam, but who knew that within 24 hours, the entire page would be replaced with spam?

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Well, that didn't take long. Yesterday, I posted a wiki job board on Lawfare so that people who are hiring in the field of national security law could reach those looking for work in the field. I expected that eventually, we would need to clean up some spam, but who knew that within 24 hours, the entire page would be replaced with spam? As a test run for our wiki document library project, it strongly suggests that we will need a good system of user authentication for those wanting to post material and edit the wiki. As of today, I am password protecting the job board---with apologies to all those this will inconvenience.

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Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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