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.
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