[WikiEN-l] [sonyalebrun at hotmail.com: Hacker attack at Wikipedia]

[Jimmy Wales]

I'm forwarding this on behalf of "Sonya Lebrun", who says that she
tried to send it to wikien-l unsuccessfully.

I find the claim about MyRedDice placing a photo of himself into this
person's cookie folder wildly implausible, but nonetheless, I'm duty
bound to say don't do that.  :-)

I offered my personal advice to "Sonya Lebrun" that she and her
friends DW and BlackWidow would be better off just leaving wikipedia.

The vague legalistic threats that have come from all of them do not
tickle my WikiLoveBone.

----- Forwarded message from Sonya Lebrun <sonyalebrun at hotmail.com> -----

From: "Sonya Lebrun" <sonyalebrun at hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 22:51:09 +0000
To: jwales at bomis.com
Subject: Hacker attack at Wikipedia

I am using a computer in two or three public places to access Wikipedia. You 
have a 35 year Cookie on users to your site so I don't need to give you my 
static IP address. I am proud to be a great and good friend of user Black 
Widow and her husband DW who also used some or all of these same public 
computers.

I was attacked at Wikipedia by a few people, some have Wikipedia powers such 
as user Zoe and JohnOwnens to delete pages and do other things to any user 
that I cannot overcome. They attacked me solely because I stated I was a 
friend of Black Widow. My valid contributions were all deleted and my polite 
complaints were obfuscated. I will send you precise details of this later 
because right now their is a more urgent matter for you to take care of at 
once.

You have a very brazen hacker named User:MyRedDice on Wikipedia who jumped 
in to attack me and boldly wrote on my User Page then deleted my User Page 
and moved my complaints from the Village Pump and the like and posted a 
derogatory page about me. When I accessed his page to politely ask he stop, 
he placed a photo of himself into this computer’s Windows Cookie folder. 
This is illegal conduct and a criminal offense.

Mr. Wales, I think you know how frightening this is, and the potential 
consequences and damages could be substantial. I have notified my server, 
and will be taking other steps to protect myself. As you are responsible for 
this site, I would request that you take note of this serious matter and 
immediately take the appropriate action at Wikipedia.org to protect me and 
other users at Wikipedia.org from this danger and abuse. Thank you.

I tried to send this to wikien-l at wikipedia.org. buyt Hotmail said the 
address could not be recognized.

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