[Mediawiki-l] Re: some general questions

Wed Jan 19 15:35:39 UTC 2005

>on
>>Mediawiki likely to provide any security hole that 'ordinary' web 
>pages
>>don't? (or: 'what do I say to sound authoritative?' ;-)
>
>like any web application, it uses dynamic content and therefore
>accesses other data than its own read-only pages. there's naturally a
>risk involved. MW in particular is also given he right to write files
>to the local disks (if you enabled uploads) and that opens another
>potential can of worms. No application is completely safe from human
>error and some holes are not avoidable in advance, yada yada yada.

ok...but think 'talking to paranoid Information Systems people who are
obsessed with security'. can I tell them there is no security reason to
not use wikis, (responsibly)