Christopher Marshall

I don't think it's outlandish at all. Software developers are always using security flaws to ensure their own future, that's all. If that isn't true then basically we are just being handed a new flawed product every time they release an update. 
 

Maybe if you wrote the software properly in the first place there wouldn't be a need for a security update. 

Yes, the Spam Defense system should check social logins as well.