..is possible by doing the master moderator password change trick.
Of course to be properly sneaky about it, they'd have to change the password back to what it was ASAP...but then come to think of it, the moderator would not know what the previous password was ! So yeah, it could be done but not without creating a little suspicion because your password stopped working !
Been a trivial exercise for so long electricity was probably not yet in common use.
The 'unreadable' original password need not BE read. Simply saved in its binary form, swapped back afterwards, log entry of the changes edited-out if logging had even been active during the exercise, and if server clock had not been diddled, AND.. etc.
IOW . .trivial exercise for even a
low-level 'wizard'.
But - other than 'National Security', we Just f*****g DO NOT DOO THAT.
OUR reputation is more valuable to US than the information can ever be to anyone less than a government we uphold... even if we trust THEM far, far, less that they would wish us to do.
quis custodiet ipsos custodes
Well for-damned-sure, too seldom
themselves...
I trust Milacron as much because he is too lazy to waste years learning how to go devious to get stale information when he can get better and more current answers, faster, and at lower resource waste, by just .....
ta da ...ASKING.
True of lots, and lots of 'sensitive' information, that. Most of it is stale if not also 'out of proper context'. Re-fighting 'the previous war', or a historical biz deal in new circumstances, as it were.
"Winners" in the strategy and tactics of human conflict and cooperation, of which 'War' is but a small subset, are more interested in what might happen next week than with what happened last year.