Praise of the Data Working Group

I wish this were true, because I’d rather be protecting OSM against dumb vandals than smart ones.

That breaks down in cases where the actor performing the attack has a real-world motivation for harming OSM and thus may be technically sophisticated. There are many strong reasons why someone, some organization, or some government might rather OSM crash and burn than the map look the “wrong” way. I hope that “relying on the bad guy being dumb” is not our defense strategy.