Well if we are going to go down that road, requring public/private key pairs would also be more secure. However i doubt either would be acceptable to users.
Actually, I think it might be better if we just have people come on down to the San Francisco office and show their government ID. Then we have Tim or Brion log them in personally. ;)
Actually to be honest, if I could login to Mediawiki with a public/private keypair I would actually really enjoy that. Certainly it shouldn't be the default, but in a very non-joking way, I would support an initiative to add that as an option.
Thank you, Derric Atzrott