[Wikipedia-l] vandalism spree

Wed Nov 20 21:38:22 UTC 2002

> But in the long run, nothing based on ip-banning would be able to stop
> a sufficiently determined vandal. Neither would relying on registered
> accounts. At present, stealing someone else's account would be quite
> easy. 

How so? Brute force password attacks? We can catch these by limiting the
attempts. What else?

Regards,

Erik

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