Last modified: 2007-04-06 00:34:38 UTC
There seem to be a substantial number of accounts that have registered with obvious passwords, the same as their usernames. Recently, vandals have been hijacking dormant accounts like this to vandalize and evade blocks. This is a serious security threat since 1) it means vandals can get around any account creation blocks by using old accounts created on other IPs, and 2) we are forced to block compromised dormant accounts that are use for vandalism, even if they have prior edit histories. The software should prevent such unsafe passwords.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3348 ***