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> Oh dear., or: a wikipedian's worse dream come true?
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It seems like either some admins have gone rouge rogue, or even worse someone's cracking into their accounts.

First it was AndyZ who made a very "special" deletions, and another special block before finally being caught and desysopped.

As people were trying to figure out what exactly happened (Dmdevit apparently posted AndyZ's IP address as part of checkuser on AN/I, but I can't find the diff), a more sinister plot was brewing...

Apparently the devious cracker (or perhaps a copycat), found another account to get into. Apparently he decided to one up the main page image vandal, by replacing those lovely sitenotices that are on every page with Goatse. (Well he also blocked Jimbo and deleted the Main Page again, but that's small fish)

In order to calm the populace, it seems that Brion's going to run a cracker in order to find admins with weak passwords.

Meanwhile one has to wonder if this particular reign of terror is going to continue. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/ph34r.gif)
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CrazyGameOfPoker   Oh dear.  
Somey   And as usual, Cyde isn't very forgiving. Why s...  
taiwopanfob   If it is possible to run a client-side password cr...  
gomi   Here's what I don't understand: the passwo...  
Somey   Now that this has happened, somebody could also st...  
Uly   That assumes the cracker was out to cause damage. ...  
Rootology   Got another pwned admin account: http://en.wikipe...  
Somey   What was he doing, just blocking people at random?...  
Rootology   Come to think of it, this is starting to reach med...  
CrazyGameOfPoker   Actually Somey, admins are able to use block/prote...  
Somey   Actually Somey, admins are able to use block/prote...  
Alkivar   Actually Somey, admins are able to use block/prot...  
The Joy   If the hacker gets into the more prominent accou...  
Rootology   ANOTHER one got haxxed.  
Unrepentant Vandal   Well chaps, I must admit that when this story brok...  
The Joy   Not Tony the Marine! This is madness! Ab...  
Rootology   Not Tony the Marine! This is madness! Ab...  
Unrepentant Vandal   Not Tony the Marine! This is madness! A...  
michael   Not Tony the Marine! This is madness! A...  
Rootology   Neither says password cracker to me. I agree, I wa...  
JTM   As to the identity of the hacker I just have two w...  
BobbyBombastic   As to the identity of the hacker I just have two ...  
Somey   What is this person's agenda? My guess is he...  
Rootology   From a Mediawiki technology standpoint, short of r...  
Somey   ...I have to agree with Cyde on one point: you hav...  
Unrepentant Vandal   From a Mediawiki technology standpoint, short of ...  
Rootology   If they have any sense they will suspend logins un...  
SirFozzie   From a Mediawiki technology standpoint, short of ...  
The Joy   Is this related to the Robdurber admin going rogue...  
The Joy   Dark Helmet: "The password's '12345...  
Somey   Ah, Somey! You caught me, as they say on WP, ...  
JohnA   And they say that good entertainment doesn't c...  
Cedric   Hmmmmmm. Jeff Merkey suddenly shows back up on W...  
Uly   Merkey's been active with other Wikimedia proj...  
The Joy   No worries. Great minds think alike! With ...  
Uly   I should say so. This would carry jail time in Flo...  
Unrepentant Vandal   I should say so. This would carry jail time in Fl...  
BobbyBombastic   I should say so. This would carry jail time in F...  
the fieryangel   If I were an admin, I'd be sort of embarassed ...  
LamontStormstar   A lot of other organizations have a multitude of d...  
Unrepentant Vandal   As for the controversy of if admins who let their...  
LamontStormstar   As for the controversy of if admins who let thei...  
Kato   Tony Sidaway has described these compromised admin...  
Rootology   Tony Sidaway has described these compromised admin...  
Kato   I'm in complete agreement. Once weird figures ...  
JohnA   .... where they are openly insulting genuine cont...  
Kato   [quote name='Kato' post='30728' date='Tue 8th May...  
Nathan   I agree wholeheartedly.  


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