[WikiEN-l] Trojan admins, is it a real problem?

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 6/18/07, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/15/07, Slim Virgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Trojan admin accounts can do a lot of damage. They can view and copy
> > deleted material; unblock abusive users; unprotect pages that would be
> > better left protected; cause endless arguments on AN/I by questioning
> > other admins; log and hand out conversations on the admins' channel,
> > and doubtless other things I haven't thought of.
>
> With all the talk about this "trojan admin" business, this question
> has to be asked. Is there any evidence that this is actually happening
> or has happened? Have any trojan admin accounts been desysopped and
> blocked? I don't believe that a few idiots bragging about doing this
> off wiki is real evidence BTW. It's more likely the bragging is either
> to impress other trolls and/or to get us all paranoid about it.
>
> And multiple accounts? A disruptor would have a hard enough time
> getting one account through all the RFA hoops. However if this really
> is happening/will happen then it is a serious problem which is why I
> like the idea of admins identifying themselves to the foundation like
> checkusers do. Sure it's possible for a troublemaker to get around
> that too but it would raise the bar for that kind of lamage.
>
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We've had hacked accounts deleting the main page for one.