On 5/7/07, William Pietri <william(a)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