Reg
Admin effort and vulnerability to exploits for a website increases exponentially with the amount of modifications allowed:
static site, no regular updates - nil effort semi-static site, updates by local admin - little effort updates by remote admins - some effort, vulnerable to bugs/exploits updates by anybody (e.g. wikis and some blogs) - huge effort, needs constant monitoring, vulnerable to all kinds of attacks
Cases in point: have a look just at the home page of the c.l.c wiki, and the amount of time the admins have poured into it over the last half-year to keep it clean. It's been quite a while since there was a day when not at least one vulnerability was discovered in some (often php-based) web app.
I seem to remember that when the r.f.c map was started, substantial time was spent fishing people out of lakes. People following the cat groups might also remember the flooding that was going on there a few months ago, and while cleaning up from such an attack is easy on a wiki (just restore last weeks state, sorry for anybody that made valid edits in that time) it still needs continuous attention. The internet is not always a friendly place anymore (ask the chaps at Blue Security, and the bloggers that got their blogs shut down for days as part of the 'collateral damage' in that affair).
Seriously...do people eat Pizza Hut in real life 2058Well, greater availability and sophistication of health care, better nutrition (a broad understanding of body chemistry and all body functions that did not exist a couple hundred years ago), and more of everything...
That said, there is much to be said for a wiki-style site, but proper controls need to be in place (and that probably includes an 'account-and-login' system). Anybody got a an idea for a better method than 'type in the numbers you see in the box'? Maybe 'what shape is this pizza'?
J.
