It would appear to me that it would be very easy for a "script kiddie" to write a a program which created huge numbers of accounts on a Sage server, perform some CPU intensive computation on them, and bring the system to a near standstill. This is generally known as a denial of service attack.
I wonder if there should be some sort of question that only a human can answer, before an account is created. I find some of the sites which use obfuscated letters and numbers almost impossible to use, as the degree of obfuscation is too large. As Sage gets better known, the chances of this happening only increase. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
