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From: Dave Page <[email protected]>
To: David Fetter <[email protected]>
To: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: human validation on post comments
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:12:05 -0000
Message-ID: <E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E4011C961F@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk> (raw)

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Fetter
> Sent: 21 March 2006 05:43
> To: PostgreSQL WWW
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] human validation on post comments
> 
> Actually, they've already got one, and here's how it works:
> 
> 1.  Put up a free porn site.
> 2.  Present somebody else's capcha image as an entry.
> 3.  Let the person see the porn if they've correctly cracked the
>     capcha.
> 4.  Spam site.
> 
> The sad part of this one is that they don't have to crack any single
> capcha system.  Instead, they've cracked the entire capcha process.

Grrr, where's my baseball bat?

Actually though that shouldn't be too much of a problem as long as the
images timeout after a few minutes- and we still have all the normal
moderation in place.

Regards, Dave.

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