warning: major episode of foot in mouth by tiki toa - General Tiki

H hanford_lemoore Tiki Socialite Tiki Central Joined: Mar 23, 2002 Posts: 1899	H hanford_lemoore Posted posted on Tue, Sep 7, 2004 2:20 PM Hi Laney, Yes, you're right. What Toa is talking about is not actual identity theft .... No one can log in as "Tiki-toa" without his password, but anyone can log in as "toa", or "tiki toa" (without the hyphen), or any other mispelling or arrangement of letters that is not a current member ID. So if you look closely at the names on Shout and compare them to member profiles, you can tell whether or not it's the real deal or an impersonator. Interestingly, Tiki-toa himself (I'm assuming it was him) was posting under the name "Toa", which meant anyone else could log in as "Toa" and post too. I happened to point out on Shout last night that that was possible, and the fun ensued ... :wink: ~Hanford [ Edited by: hanford_lemoore on 2004-09-07 14:21 ]

Hi Laney,

Yes, you're right. What Toa is talking about is not actual identity theft ....

No one can log in as "Tiki-toa" without his password, but anyone can log in as "toa", or "tiki toa" (without the hyphen), or any other mispelling or arrangement of letters that is not a current member ID.

So if you look closely at the names on Shout and compare them to member profiles, you can tell whether or not it's the real deal or an impersonator.

Interestingly, Tiki-toa himself (I'm assuming it was him) was posting under the name "Toa", which meant anyone else could log in as "Toa" and post too. I happened to point out on Shout last night that that was possible, and the fun ensued ... :wink:

~Hanford

[ Edited by: hanford_lemoore on 2004-09-07 14:21 ]

Post #112827 by hanford_lemoore on Tue, Sep 7, 2004 2:20 PM