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<p>Why would someone take over someone else's OSM account? I can delete all your edits with an account I create afresh, why would I want to take over yours?</p>
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<p>I've no interest in taking over <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=899988" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/matkoniecz">@matkoniecz</a> user account. But as for yours, <a class="user-mention" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/hovercards?user_id=705471" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/woodpeck">@woodpeck</a>  - well, moderator privileges make a juicer target! Even more so for an admin account. We can't currently make any account-security checks before handing out elevated privileges, and there's a bunch of stuff which is hard to undo if a moderator or admin account with weak access gets hacked. Even a normal account has who-knows-what in the private messaging system, and "well password complexity is entirely up to the user to worry about" isn't something I want to hear.</p>
<p>So I'm supportive of this suggestion. But I would strongly suggest that it waits until we move our account signup process over to Devise. Implementation would be best then as a devise-compatible extension, or using existing extensions like <a href="https://github.com/devise-security/devise-security">https://github.com/devise-security/devise-security</a></p>

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