Article #1091
Subject: Re: Decrypt
Author: Stephen Baynham
Posted: 3/16/2001 03:15:05 PM

Neil wrote:<br>
Oof, you were lucky and/or the rogue wizard was
stupid.  Once someone
has become a wizard, they have the power to make sure
that you can never
get rid of them.  <br>
<br>
Well, he would have to be stupid to mess with ME!
Heh... actually, he was no cracker.  He was stupid,
though.  Seriously, he could have waited until late
night, when no one would get on, then dewizzed and
deleted everyone.  Instead, he decided to cause minor
disturbances (deleting about 110 rooms, only 20 of
which had been desced).  The only problem with what he
did, actually, was that 15 rooms were coded intensely,
and they had to be re-coded.  I had not yet gotten
into the habit of saving code in a text file.  The
funny thing is, he was laughing about how we'd have to
re-desc, when our builder HAD saved all the
descriptions in a text file.  Very good builder, to be
sure.  Anywho, for some reason, rather than change
passwords, he chose to delete them, so a quick look at
a wiz showed that the password, rather than an
incripted garble was a zero.  And so we figured out
where he was planning to enter, and deleted that
wizard.  Very easy, and lucky for us, very stupid.
Also, had he have typed faster than me (I type about
85), he could have dewizzed me, the only competant
coder on the MOO.  Rogue wizards are icky.  Security
is important. remember that.

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