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To deal with the increasing number of compromised blogs, WordPress 2.6 will turn off XML-RPC and AtomPUB interfaces by default.
MarsEdit developer Daniel Jalkut points out that the WordPress developers are ignoring the root cause:
If your web service only provides one, first-class API through which all access flows, then you’ve only got one point to secure, [...]