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Getting hit by a spambot that’s getting past most of the site filters. Again.
My Akismet filter (the spam filter built into wordpress) catches ~ 3000 spam comments a day. It misses about 50-100 a day. So, in other words, spambots are leaving a good 25 to 30 times as many comments as, you know, actual readers. I love the Internet. no, really, I *love* the Internet. Especially this guy, who decided the most reasonable solution to ending blogspam is for every blogger to write their own commenting software.
So the site security is going up to Defcon Orange. You may see some wackiness.
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about 3 years ago
Why don’t you just add in one of those image dealies where you have to type what you see in the picture in order to post? Shouldn’t that block 99% of them or have the bots gotten smart enough to read those images now?
about 3 years ago
As told in the links above, yes, Skynet has adapted.
about 3 years ago
Also, very nice goatse picture there on the pwntcha site
(You have to scroll down a bit)
about 3 years ago
someone please buy that poor man a new keyboard. his shift key is obviously broken which makes reading his article very tedious.
about 3 years ago
Two of those 3000 caught were probably my attempts to post in a previous topic a few days ago. I probably referenced too many encyclopedias or something.
btw, did that guy think it was necessary to put goatse in his list of captcha examples? That’s so several years ago.
about 3 years ago
Goatse may be old news … but the scars are forever.
about 3 years ago
g3t ch3@p vi@gr@ n0w!!1! http://www.lumviagra.com
about 3 years ago
Pivot works and blocks all automatted spam. I love it.
PS. Five things you didn’t know about me is up… What’s that three months and two weeks late?
about 3 years ago
It’s actually quite annoying how bad spam in every regard has gotten. I really wish I could find the 1% of people that these types of advertising actually work on and smack them in the face hard.
about 3 years ago
put it in context. my blog audience is primarily developers … who have the ability to write/customize their own commenting engines. instead, most people just use one of the standard packages, which provides a very targeted surface area for comment spammers to attack.
about 3 years ago
Are you using wordpress? I am working on a solution to filter bots and some people, but I don’t get enough hits, comments, or spam to really justify such a drastic solution, apart from it being really funny.
Currently just a hack to cryptographp, but I’ll keep at it ’til I’ve covered all the bases.
about 3 years ago
I suggest you look into Asirra from Microsoft Research: http://research.microsoft.com/asirra/
My spam has dropped to zero, nothing for Akismet to catch. But then, I only averaged 4-5 spam per day (with occasional floods of more). YMMV, but it looks solid. It’ll also help find homes for dogs and cats.
about 3 years ago
CAPTCHA definitely can be foiled. However, tilt, position and background definitely make it a tougher task… …I get hit with a ton of spam on my blog, but very very little of it gets by. If I turned CAPTCHA off (which I did recently, inadvertantly during a server swap where I didn’t have GD library installed, and suddenly, I was innundated with 100+ spam comments an hour!). Once in a while, one breaks through, and they end up IP blocked.
Of course, I think I have all of Indonesia, Malaysia, China, and Turkey IP blocks blocked now too…