[WikiEN-l] New quest account: User:MyPasswordIsYELLOW

[Eric Demolli]

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 at bomis.com>
To: <wikien-l at 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
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