[WikiEN-l] Admin account cracker about to be run internally

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 5/8/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/8/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For casual readers, it doesn't matter that much. For admins, it really
> matters.
>
> Right. Admins make all sorts of privileged actions virtually all of
> which can be trivially reverted while casual readers only select the
> board.... oh. hm.


Yes, if an admin account gets compromised it can be reverted. We've seen
that enough times already.
The thing is, it's a pain. It takes administrator resources when it could
easily be avoided by being more secure.

Mgm