On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:01 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Before this, there was no expectation that a page could be protected
> such that sysops could not alter the content of the superprotected
> page.
>

This is false.


> Now, the devs/ops have attempted to introduce that capability, and the
> new functionality is very likely riddled with holes, some of which
> MZMcBride has suggested in the thread 'Options for the German
> Wikipedia'.
>

Most of what MZMcBride posted there has nothing to do with actually
breaking superprotection. Editing a page that isn't superprotected isn't a
break in the protection feature itself, for example. Nor is hacking
people's accounts.


-- 
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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