Article #1087
Subject: Re: Decrypt
Author: Stephen Baynham
Posted: 3/16/2001 10:37:55 AM

Like Robert said: security reasons.  A while back, I
was working on a MOO which had very poor security: I
arrived hoping to code a few things, and they made me
a wizard without even knowing me first.  Of course,
I'm not one to trash a system, but some others are.
We didn't change this system of mass wizarding
(because we thought we needed all the help we could
get) until a wizard decided he didn't want to work on
the MOO and recycled all the rooms in the MOO.  We
dewizzed and toaded him.  However, he had changed the
passwords of a few wizards that hadn't been on in a
few months, so he continued to get on and act rather
immaturely.  Eventually, a mass check of passwords
ensured that he wouldn't come back.  However, think of
what COULD have happened.  Since I was the only one
who knew how to code, everyone trusted me.  If he had
gotten my password, there's no telling what could have
happned.  It takes poor planning to create a wizard
like that, but we should not have to live in a world
of the ONE FATAL MISTAKE.  The lack of decrypt
protects wizards from themselves.

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