Security is a very large concern for Wikipedia, especially for administrator accounts. Wikipedia is the tenth most visited site on the Internet. If a administrator account is compromised, the Main Page could be damaged. Therefore, security is very important. This WikiProject will help make the site more secure.
Current Alerts edit
Although some of the information here may be in violation of WP:BEANS, security of our users is more important than that essay.
Unencrypted Login edit
Currently, almost everyone logs into the unencrypted server. A malicious person who has many loyal users could do the following:
- Create a vandalbot.
- Wiretap the lines going towards Wikipedia.
- Look for logins and get the username and password.
- Distribute the vandalbot and username/password pairs to the loyal users.
- Said users begin running the vandalbot on their account.
A person could tap Internet lines at random and still could get a lot of Wikipedia logins. This would disrupt the system quite a bit.