On 18/06/07, Ron Ritzman <ritzman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 6/15/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin(a)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.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk