[Mediawiki-l] spam attack avoids captcha

Hiram Clawson hiram at soe.ucsc.edu
Wed Mar 16 22:50:43 UTC 2011


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.



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