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Here comes the OpenID spam
Friday, May 18 2007 @ 19:42 CEST Contributed by: Dirk
OpenID.org made it clear from the start: What about trust? This is not a trust system. Trust requires identity first. What about spam? Again, this is not a trust system. And now it has happened: The Undevelopment Blog reports the sighting of the first OpenID spam (via Planet OpenID). Just as a heads-up for those who still thought it would help against that problem in any way ...
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Here comes the OpenID spam

Well, it was a sort of a temporary solution. Now we can get back to creating a permanent one...

Dmitry

Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 18 2007 @ 19:53 CEST

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Here comes the OpenID spam

I fail to see how it was a temporary solution when the OpenID.org sites states that it wasn't intended to address spam problems to begin with.

The fact that it may've aided in the deflecting spam (for a while) is a side effect.

Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, January 29 2008 @ 06:04 CET

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