It's stuff like this that causes site owners to require a captcha or throttle based on IP. Anyone can create 5000 fake accounts with a script, so there's nothing too original here. Based on the blog title, I thought they might've discovered an interesting XSS exploit, or social engineering technique.<p>Generating 5000 fake accounts falls into the script kiddie level of originality.<p>I'm sure there's some developer at Github right now tasked with locating these fake accounts and deleting them.