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Re: Cryptios
by
theymos
on 08/05/2019, 21:20:53 UTC
⭐ Merited by Foxpup (3) ,malevolent (1) ,LoyceV (1) ,vapourminer (1)
The account was security-locked, not "banned for sending stupid merit". The user would see a message saying "Your account is locked because it is suspected to be compromised, email ...". Then if they email and provide some evidence that it's not compromised, it'd be unlocked.

Locking without a recovery email can be appropriate in cases similar to this where the user woke up, their access had suspicious characteristics, and they immediately started doing suspicious things. If their access characteristics change from one week to the next, without a long period of inactivity, then I'd be more likely to assume by default that they're using someone else's computer or they sold their account (which is allowed), and I'd rely on a complaint email to move from this default assumption.

Cryptios's main purpose is recovering accounts, but they can also do minor patroller-type things. They are neither admins nor global moderators. They have access to IP/security logs (not PMs), but each of their accesses to private info are logged and per-day-limited; even if their access was compromised, the damage would be limited. In the past 7 days, they viewed the basic info/logs of 461 users and viewed the IP logs of 51 users.