[werewolf] Password abuse in game 229

[flig@aol.com]

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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