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Uhm, I don't really care if he actually sniffed the passwords from PMs, got them delivered by UPS, dreamed of them or whatever.
A fact is, he is a netgamers admin and therefore a person we all have to trust. He seems to admit he used access data he got from somewhere. No matter if 'somewhere' is his logs or not, the trust is lost and therefore he should not be irc oper.
If he still is irc oper on netgamers the only possible conclusion is the other irc opers support password stealing.
And no, this is not a case of 'innocent until proven guilty', it is only a matter of trust as the use of passwords he should not have is killing this trust already.

Regards,
_are_