Bug 154357 - Kill the spam spiders on Bugzilla
Summary: Kill the spam spiders on Bugzilla
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Bugzilla
Classification: Community
Component: Bugzilla General
Version: 3.2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: PnT DevOps Devs
QA Contact: David Lawrence
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/...
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-04-10 22:19 UTC by William M. Quarles
Modified: 2013-06-24 02:58 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Enhancement
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-12-02 01:45:03 UTC
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Description William M. Quarles 2005-04-10 22:19:45 UTC
Description of problem:

I managed to come up with this Bugzilla page on Google, which means that spam
spiders can use Bugzilla, too.  I was wondering if one of two things could be
done to correct this:
1. Make Bugzilla a members-only site.
2. Have Bugzilla do e-mail address obfuscation like what is done on the Red Hat
mailing list archives, such as <dkl redhat.com>.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): current

Comment 1 William M. Quarles 2005-04-10 22:21:35 UTC
I got this URL, too, so apparently Google can search the newer system as well.

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=152858>

Comment 2 David Lawrence 2006-04-08 17:52:29 UTC
Red Hat's current Bugzilla version is 2.18. I am moving all older open bugs to
this version. Any bugs against the older versions will need to be verified that
they are still bugs. This will help me also to sort them better.

Comment 3 David Lawrence 2008-09-16 16:52:23 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla is now using version 3.2 of the Bugzilla codebase and therefore this bug will need to be re-verified against the new release. With the updated code this bug may no longer be relevant or may have been fixed in the new code.
Updating bug version to 3.2.

Comment 4 Noura El hawary 2008-12-02 01:45:03 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> 
> I managed to come up with this Bugzilla page on Google, which means that spam
> spiders can use Bugzilla, too.  I was wondering if one of two things could be
> done to correct this:
> 1. Make Bugzilla a members-only site.

Bugzilla currently has lots of bugs access restrictions, not all bugs are viewable to public or non logged in users, there are groups restrictions, private comments and private attachments.


> 2. Have Bugzilla do e-mail address obfuscation like what is done on the Red Hat
> mailing list archives, such as <dkl redhat.com>.

This has been achieved in bugzilla 3.2 as only logged in users to bugzilla can see email addresses of other bugzilla users, non logged in users can not see any email  addresses.


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