On 5/8/07, K P <kpbotany(a)gmail.com> wrote:
One other problem Wikipedia has. If you log onto
Wikipedia on a public
computer, your user name stays forever on that public computer--there is no
way to not have a computer you use not save your Wikipedia user name. Web
sites that do this are just asking for their users' accounts to be
hacked--the rest of the universe is probably not as rich and computer savvy
as many Wikipedia editors.
Not forever, and it's simple to have the 3 most commonbowsers to
"forget that data". You just need to learn it. So it's incorrect to
state "there is no way to not have a computer you use not save your
Wikipedia user name"
OF course, if you don't know how, you can't do it. But it's not
impossible and it's not hard either.
People aren't necessarily going around trying to crack admin accounts. I
used to all the time sign on to people's accounts on public computers, when
I had to spend a lot of time using public computers. I never spent time on
password guessing, I simply tried two or three obvious ones. Usually
fuckyou or password. I'm not voyeuristic, so I never did anything except
log off, but it was curious that I got in more often than not. Try it some
time at a public library or other public internet spot, find a web page
someone has logged into and guess their password--2/3 of the time you will
succeed.
Alphanumeric? fuckyou123, abc123, 123abc, and password123 all go a long way
with alphanumeric accounts.
KP
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