This sounds easily achievable with a robot. For each event, the robot checks to see if the edit is authorized, and if not, reverts it to the last known authorized edit. The caveats:
1. Depending on which blips you want to lock, the robot may need to be added prior to an authorized edit, for it to see the content (since all of the blips in a wave aren't normally sent with events). 2. You'll effectively need to store your own copy of the content of all of the blips locked in this manner. The storage burden may be significant. 3. Wave has no functionality to authenticate events[1], so it would be possible for someone to forge an event to your robot containing a fake "authorized" edit to a blip (or an unlock command), causing your robot to accept the edit. It also allows someone to read blips in a wave they don't have permission to see, assuming they could get their hands on the wave ID, by submitting a bogus edit event to that blip and watching what your robot reverts its content to. David [1] http://code.google.com/p/google-wave-resources/issues/detail?id=344 On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Akiva <akiva.m.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know Wave does not allow users to lock the text of their original > blips. Could someone build a robot that would, when enabled, watch > the text of particular blips for edits and restore the original text > if edits are made? This is of particular interest to me because I'm > considering opening a number of public waves on political issues, and > that's exactly the sort of contentious public debate where bad actors > would be likely to alter an author's post in order to discredit them. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Wave API" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-wave-...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-wave-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-wave-api%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to google-wave-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-wave-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en.
