On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:42:15PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
This creates an obscure and hard to exploit but fun hole:
Step 1. Pick a prominent non-admin on enwiki who is also not an admin anywhere else.
Step 2. Email them something friendly in order to determine their email address.
Step 3. Create an account on an obsecure wikimedia wiki where obtaining adminship is trivial. Set your email address to theirs, don't confirm.
Step 4. Make some edits edits on the small wiki and become an admin. You now have prefered status for standing as the master account.
Step 5. Merge accounts and enjoy your new enwiki account.
Step 6. PROFITT!!1!!
Cheers, -- jr 'moral imperative. hadda be done' a