Re: [werewolf] Password abuse in game 229

[Lyman Hurd <lhurd@yahoo.com>]

It occurs to me that bugmenot may not play other games
and therefore might not know that the password is not
a function just of WW but global to all interactions
with the server, and therefore revealing or abusing it
is in a different league than, for example, figuring
out someone's alias.

Cheers,

Lyman

--- Lyman Hurd <lhurd@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Glad to hear that people have some standards...
> 
> Seriously, though, I would say that this behavior
> was
> skating really close to grounds for expulsion from
> the
> server.
> 
> Your friendly neighborhood ethicist,
> 
> Lyman
> 
> --- The One Ring
> <theres.only.one.ring.to.rule.them.all@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I've been away from the pc while typing this
> email,
> > so I first missed
> > the emails that followed after flig's email. I saw
> > them now, but still
> > wanted to send this email, just to have a reaction
> > that everyone could
> > see.
> > 
> > I'm glad you emailed me personally as well to tell
> > me you're sorry,
> > but I also still feel bad about what you did, so I
> > still want to send
> > the email I was writing before...
> > 
> > 
> > v
> > v
> > v
> > 
> > 
> > Like flig said: Uncool!
> > 
> > I really detest the way you used my password, not
> > only because of the
> > influence on the game but for not just telling me
> > what I did in error
> > instead of just using it in some weird way to tell
> > me what I had done.
> > And I'm really just flabbergasted that you not
> only
> > did that, but also
> > threw my password onto the server for everyone (in
> > this game) to
> > see...
> > 
> > Not much more I can say about it...
> > 
> > 
> > On 06/04/06, flig@aol.com <flig@aol.com> wrote:
> > > Ok, we've joked about it before, but this time
> it
> > was actually used.
> > > Uncool.
> > >
> > > Sometimes, people respond to an announcement
> here
> > about a game being
> > > formed.  The problem is that when you reply to a
> > message on the
> > > werewolf-users list, and are not paying
> attention,
> > the return address
> > > is the original sender.  It's caught many of us
> > before (myself at least
> > > 3 times)....to the point where a few messages
> > ended with "...and dont'
> > > forget to send me your password."  Nobody ever
> > actually used the
> > > password -- often when people sent me theirs, I
> > responded with, "you
> > > missed, and you probably want to change your
> > password."  (and the reply
> > > to that was usually "Dammit!")
> > >
> > > So.....if we wanna talk about Ethics in
> Werewolf,
> > I suppose we're going
> > > to have to cover password abuse now?
> > >
> > > I don't think there's really a good fix for this
> > problem, save for
> > > sender vigilance.  And playing nice.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > >
> > > bugmenot writes:
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > as for my vote I'm going with the bandwagon. And
> > as for the
> > > somebody-got-rocornel's-password thing, I have a
> > little
> > > revelation to tell you. :-)
> > >
> > > Rocornel once sent ME the message when he was
> > trying to sign up
> > > for werewolf game 227. I don't know why he did
> > this, but I
> > > received the following message a while back:
> > >
> > > From:  "The One Ring"
> > >
> <theres.only.one.ring.to.rule.them.all@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > To:  "bugmenot@gawab.com" <bugmenot@gawab.com>
> > >
> > > Date:  30 Mar 2006, 01:03:29 AM
> > > Subject:  werewolf join 227 rocornel [password]
> > sokoban
> > >
> > > I didn't think it was the real password, so just
> > to see what
> > > happened I tried voting for the bandwagon with
> > that username and
> > > password, to end the day. And we got lucky on
> it:
> > we got a wolf
> > > with that vote!
> > >
> > > Of course, maybe there's a reason why rocornel
> > doesn't like this
> > > especially: maybe he's a wolf?
> > >
> > > I'm sorry for any havoc this has caused and one
> of
> > the main
> > > reasons why I did this was to let you know that
> > your password
> > > accidentally got out and you might want to
> change
> > it. Please do
> > > not hold any malice against me for it because I
> am
> > a villager
> > > and if you lynch me you'll be doing yourselves a
> > disservice.
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