On 18/06/07, 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?
We had a spate of delete-the-main-page-etc vandalism from admin accounts about a month or two back; five or so were desysopped. Of those, I believe most were forcibly cracked via bad passwords; one was possibly malicious (I haven't followed up since, so I can't say what was decided.) There was also a similar case a little time before with an admin who had quit - this one did appear to be them "going out with a bang", as it were, rather than a broken account.
Corrections welcomed.