On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 16:40, Magnus Manske wrote:
Jimmy Wales wrote:
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
Frankly, I don't see much need for high security of Wikipedia logins.
Agreed. Remember that in the old wikipedia software, anyone could log in as anyone else, password or no password.
Yes, but
- wikipedia was small (=little known) at that time
And now it's big, with a lot more people watching over it and protecting it. It takes a lot more to kill a colony of ants than a few ants.
- with all the new enhanced functions, sysops can do much more damage
today ;-)
Not really. In fact, with the enhanced user-blocking of today, there's just about nothing a rogue sysop could do that couldn't be easily reversed.
- if someone hacks an administrator password (e.g., mine), a "DELETE
FROM cur" would have us looking for backups pretty fast...
That's the only problem, and we have tons of backups.
In other words, all this paranoia is tedious and unhealthy.