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Jimmy Wales wrote:
Alphax wrote:
Note to anyone considering doing the same. Do not use your wikipedia password when you set up an account.
Aren't passwords hashed in Mediawiki anyway??
Yes, but it would be a trivial change to the code to also record a plaintext version of the password.
Brion told me as such on #mediawiki when I asked about it. Anyway, the site appears to be dead now.
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