On 07/05/07, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
We're starting to roll out some additional protections against password-guessing attacks, including but not limited to:
- Weak-password checks on existing sysops on our largest sites. Several
accounts have had their weak passwords invalidated and will need to reset by mail before logging in again.
Needless to say, anyone whose password is a certain string beginning "09 F9" is blocked forever and their name put in [[Meta:Hall of Shame]] to be poked fun at.
- d.