On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Hiram Clawson <[email protected]> wrote:

> What prevents the black hat google spammers from creating OpenID accounts ?
>
> --Hiram
>
> Frederick Grose wrote:
> > Install
> > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID
> > and disable new account creation, instead, redirect users to the OpenID
> > account page,
> > Special:OpenIDLogin.
>

I suspect that that simply doesn't fit their attack plan or program.
Perhaps there are other obstacles in taking that route, such as better
filtering by the OpenID providers.

        --Fred
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