[OSM-talk] threats

[Joerg Ostertag]

On Monday 24 July 2006 19:57, OJW wrote:
> On Monday 24 July 2006 09:50, Joerg Ostertag wrote:
> > > > If that's the case, then I'm going to have to create a new OSM
> > > > account every week or so, just to protect my old work...
> >
> > Don't worry; since I'm almost sure you'll never contribute copyrighted
> > Data ;-) There is no need fort you to hazels with creating new accounts
> > every other week ;-)
>
> Someone could guess or sniff my password in the future, and start using it
> for malicious editing. If that happens, OSM's plan is (apparently) to
> delete Newcastle, Bedfordshire, and central London.

NO!!!
OSMs plan is to mail to you and ask what happened or why you did that. That's 
one of the reasons you have an e-mail address as contact for the OSM stuff.
Then you'll tell them, that you didn't do it in person. So the OSM staff can 
investigate together with you, when these things happened, probably finding 
that your password must have been compromised. Then you'll have to change 
your password and an OSM admin can rollback all the malicious stuff together 
with you.

-
Joerg