On Nov 25, 12:34 pm, "Dr. David Kirkby" <david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote: > 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. Someone might even try creating Sage worksheets that function as vectors for spam.
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