As far as the cracked passwords, that happening again (at least vie the usual means of iterating through all possible passes or using a common pass list) will have a very hard time of succeeding due to the captchas put into place after the last incident.
Regards, Eagle 101
On 6/18/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/18/07, Ron Ritzman ritzman@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/15/07, Slim Virgin slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
Trojan admin accounts can do a lot of damage. They can view and copy deleted material; unblock abusive users; unprotect pages that would be better left protected; cause endless arguments on AN/I by questioning other admins; log and hand out conversations on the admins' channel, and doubtless other things I haven't thought of.
With all the talk about this "trojan admin" business, this question has to be asked. Is there any evidence that this is actually happening or has happened? Have any trojan admin accounts been desysopped and blocked? I don't believe that a few idiots bragging about doing this off wiki is real evidence BTW. It's more likely the bragging is either to impress other trolls and/or to get us all paranoid about it.
And multiple accounts? A disruptor would have a hard enough time getting one account through all the RFA hoops. However if this really is happening/will happen then it is a serious problem which is why I like the idea of admins identifying themselves to the foundation like checkusers do. Sure it's possible for a troublemaker to get around that too but it would raise the bar for that kind of lamage.
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