Wordpress 2.6 will have new security features. One of them is disabling the default APP and XMLRPC publishing.
According to the Wordpress enhancement note "In order to protect the majority of blogs which don’t use these protocols against any possible security vulnerabilities we should disable them by default."
This is similar to the idea that registration is disabled by default. As an FYI, this feature is already disabled in other blogging softwares like Typepad. But Wordpress will allow publishers to change the Remote Publishing option manually for individual blogs. Blogger, the …

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