[WikiEN-l] Please change your passwords.

Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton at gmail.com
Tue May 8 01:12:30 UTC 2007


> I did just add to [[Wikipedia:Administrators]] a note -
>
> Administrators, bureaucrats, checkusers, stewards and oversighters
> discovered to have cryptographically weak passwords will have their
> privileges removed on grounds of site security. This means that if
> your password can be cracked by the developers, they will take away
> your admin bit before someone "borrows" it for malicious purposes.

Is that true? If the recent check of all en admins passwords is
anything to go by, they are simply forced to change their password,
they aren't desysopped.



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