[WikiEN-l] How lovely, someone deleted the Main Page again

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With proxies... probably useful, but not useful enough.

On 07/05/07, Ron Ritzman <ritzman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/6/07, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 01:32, 7 May 2007 AndyZ (Talk | contribs | block) deleted "Main Page"
> > (My password is password!) (Restore)
>
> I suspect that somebody started trying to log into admin accounts with
> the password "password" until he found an admin using "password".
> What's scary is that if true he found one in the A's.
>
> Would a 24 hour autoblock for x number of wrong passwords to any
> account within a certain period of time help prevent this kind of
> thing?
>
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