I feel seriously uneasy about this and I don't think it's the burrito. So let's say if I change my e-mail address, get a new Tor circuit, and want to entertain my Russian friends with the help of Google Translate, will my account get locked because someone felt like it?
That sounds unlikely to happen. If the password would be changed as well, being hacked would be more plausible (Occam's razor). However, even in this made-up scenario of yours, I would be very careful how/if to proceed (especially since I could risk tipping off a hacker on how to hide their tracks by giving away too many details).
Does Cryptios have any thread with regards to their account recovery or sort of a list for their attempts here in the forum? If they don't have one yet I think they should because it would be great to see how they have successfully (or fail) on every account they try to to recover. Another thing is that it will be an added transparency other forum members will be interested to see.
The seclog shows manual recoveries and I feel a bit better knowing that users check it often.
How many Cryptios employees can see the IP address(es) of forum users?
We have tiered access, on a need-to-know basis. There have also been recent changes on how data is being handled by the forum, you can check it here:
https://bitcointalk.org/privacy.phpSounds like they have access to IPs and old sec/mod logs, do they have access to PMs?
No.
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As I said, there have been no changes in the public forum policy. As always, account sales are not against the rules but they' not enouraged either. There's no random account locks going on.