[WikiEN-l] New quest account: User:MyPasswordIsYELLOW

Wed Feb 5 20:37:44 UTC 2003

Of course its not very efficient, everything is in in the logs, but this and
add some incertitude.
See how these accounts have disappearared today.

Well the sollutiond is obvious : refuse any user name that contain the
substring "password".
Is there any John Password here ?

--Eric

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com>
To: <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] New quest account: User:MyPasswordIsYELLOW

> Eric Demolli wrote:
> > I think it's just a way to be anonymous. Maybe to avoid to be sued in
> > Delaware.
>
> I understand the desire, but this is not a good means to achieve it.
>
> First, you can already make up a user name that doesn't reveal
> anything about you.
>
> Second, using one of these accounts still does nothing to mask your
> i.p. number from the server, which is what you really need for strong
> anonymity.
>
> So, you know, this just doesn't help, is the main thing.
>
> --Jimbo
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