On 4/15/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
5)security risk (admin accounts getting hacked) without the gain.
Could someone tell me why this always comes up in discussions like these? The same thing came up in a discussion about inactive bot accounts. We have over a thousand admins. If every single one of them had passwords long enough and with a great enough variety of characters to prevent them from being easily hacked (according to all the websites with minimum requirements for these things) I would be very surprised. Yet not once in the entirety of the history of Wikipedia has a single admin account been hacked. Is there some technical flaw in the software that reduces the security of admin accounts in general if there are too many of them or what?