On 5/7/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Pedro Sanchez wrote:
That sort of questions on RFA are borderly dickery, pseudo trollish, and definitely the wrong way to approach the issue. If I were on RFA, I wouldn't answer it (I wouldn't even pass RFA these days anyway... so *shrug*)
For what it's worth, I didn't mind answering it. I thought all the RfA questions were interesting and fun.
Even if some question were pseudo-trollish (not that mine were), I think that's fine. I'd rather we were sure that an admin can keep their cool in the face of well-meant but awkward or kooky comments.
William
One other problem Wikipedia has. If you log onto Wikipedia on a public computer, your user name stays forever on that public computer--there is no way to not have a computer you use not save your Wikipedia user name. Web sites that do this are just asking for their users' accounts to be hacked--the rest of the universe is probably not as rich and computer savvy as many Wikipedia editors.
People aren't necessarily going around trying to crack admin accounts. I used to all the time sign on to people's accounts on public computers, when I had to spend a lot of time using public computers. I never spent time on password guessing, I simply tried two or three obvious ones. Usually fuckyou or password. I'm not voyeuristic, so I never did anything except log off, but it was curious that I got in more often than not. Try it some time at a public library or other public internet spot, find a web page someone has logged into and guess their password--2/3 of the time you will succeed.
Alphanumeric? fuckyou123, abc123, 123abc, and password123 all go a long way with alphanumeric accounts.
KP