I've just been asked on my RfA.: Is your password alphanumeric? Formed by at least 8 characters? Not by words in the dictionary? Not in the [http://geodsoft.com/howto/password/common.htm weakest password list]? (just answer ''yes'' plz)''' and I have answered "It meet the requirements of being secure to a greater degree than those specified. I have followed the discussion of this both on WP and on the wikien-l list and I do not think there is agreement yet on just what the requirement should be and how it should be worded"
On 5/7/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 08/05/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
I did just add to [[Wikipedia:Administrators]] a note -
Administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, stewards and oversighters discovered to have cryptographically weak passwords will have their privileges removed on grounds of site security. This means that if your password can be cracked by the developers, they will take away your admin bit before someone "borrows" it for malicious purposes.
Is that true? If the recent check of all en admins passwords is anything to go by, they are simply forced to change their password, they aren't desysopped.
Not yet, looks like. I'd suspect it's likely for the future.
- d.
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