On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Hiram Clawson <hiram(a)soe.ucsc.edu> 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