You are now being quoted Jimbo: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MyPasswordIsYELLOW
Can we stop this before it gets out of hand?
--mav
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Daniel Mayer wrote:
You are now being quoted Jimbo: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MyPasswordIsYELLOW
Can we stop this before it gets out of hand?
It strikes me that the very idea here is silly. Anyone can login and change the password *from* yellow to something else. If any of these accounts does anything bad, that account can be banned for it.
I just don't see what the author of these is thinking.
I have no problem with deleting these as fast as they show up. We can treat it like any other vandalism.
--Jimbo
I think it's just a way to be anonymous. Maybe to avoid to be sued in Delaware.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy Wales" jwales@bomis.com To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 12:27 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] New quest account: User:MyPasswordIsYELLOW
Daniel Mayer wrote:
You are now being quoted Jimbo: http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MyPasswordIsYELLOW
Can we stop this before it gets out of hand?
It strikes me that the very idea here is silly. Anyone can login and change the password *from* yellow to something else. If any of these accounts does anything bad, that account can be banned for it.
I just don't see what the author of these is thinking.
I have no problem with deleting these as fast as they show up. We can treat it like any other vandalism.
--Jimbo _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Eric Demolli wrote:
I think it's just a way to be anonymous. Maybe to avoid to be sued in Delaware.
I understand the desire, but this is not a good means to achieve it.
First, you can already make up a user name that doesn't reveal anything about you.
Second, using one of these accounts still does nothing to mask your i.p. number from the server, which is what you really need for strong anonymity.
So, you know, this just doesn't help, is the main thing.
--Jimbo
Of course its not very efficient, everything is in in the logs, but this and add some incertitude. See how these accounts have disappearared today.
Well the sollutiond is obvious : refuse any user name that contain the substring "password". Is there any John Password here ?
--Eric
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy Wales" jwales@bomis.com To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:58 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] New quest account: User:MyPasswordIsYELLOW
Eric Demolli wrote:
I think it's just a way to be anonymous. Maybe to avoid to be sued in Delaware.
I understand the desire, but this is not a good means to achieve it.
First, you can already make up a user name that doesn't reveal anything about you.
Second, using one of these accounts still does nothing to mask your i.p. number from the server, which is what you really need for strong anonymity.
So, you know, this just doesn't help, is the main thing.
--Jimbo _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
Eric Demolli wrote:
Well the solution is obvious : refuse any user name that contain the substring "password". Is there any John Password here ?
It seems like an even better solution is to just stop it cold so that it will just go away. If someone wants to explain just what technological point of it is, then we can see if it's worth trying to accomodate it in some more sensible way.
--Jimbo
This is pretty much impossible to do. There's no filter that's anywhere near as sophisticated as the human brain. You won't be able to catch all the possible variations of "password" someone can come up with, or the probably several billion ways of identifying a password string in a username to another human being. If you want to do it, the best way is to catch them by hand. Or just let them slide - I think their impact will be minimal.
Saurabh
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In message 20030205123414.H22575@joey.bomis.com, Jimmy Wales said:
Eric Demolli wrote:
Well the solution is obvious : refuse any user name that contain the substring "password". Is there any John Password here ?
It seems like an even better solution is to just stop it cold so that it will just go away. If someone wants to explain just what technological point of it is, then we can see if it's worth trying to accomodate it in some more sensible way.
--Jimbo _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l