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: Why do they keep creating users? I never see any of them actually post anything. Are they hoping to lie low then spam later? -gm | : Why do they keep creating users? I never see any of them actually post anything. Are they hoping to lie low then spam later? -gm | ||
:: Subliminal advertising? I can't figure it either --[[User:Msallen|Msallen]] | :: Subliminal advertising? I can't figure it either --[[User:Msallen|Msallen]] | ||
| + | ::: It could be that ReCAPTCHA has been beaten, although there haven't been any actual edits, so I can't be positive. There is another CAPTCHA program that actually generates the images based on some seed, so that might work better. However, that won't do anything if what's happening is that there are people on the other end just filling out CAPTCHAs to push these bots through, which is conceivable (bot sends an image back to a server, someone sits there whose job is just filling out CAPTCHAs all day and sends it back, bot takes auth and continues its nefarious deeds is something that is possible). MedaWiki's site might have some clues.-[[User:Slitherrr|Slitherrr]] | ||
Revision as of 13:22, 8 November 2010
Would you guys mind if I looked into installing some sort of CAPTCHA system for new pages by users with below x amount of traffic? This shit's getting ridiculous. -Slitherrr
I need to figure out how these bots are getting past the CAPTCHA to create users. -Slitherrr
- Why do they keep creating users? I never see any of them actually post anything. Are they hoping to lie low then spam later? -gm
- Subliminal advertising? I can't figure it either --Msallen
- It could be that ReCAPTCHA has been beaten, although there haven't been any actual edits, so I can't be positive. There is another CAPTCHA program that actually generates the images based on some seed, so that might work better. However, that won't do anything if what's happening is that there are people on the other end just filling out CAPTCHAs to push these bots through, which is conceivable (bot sends an image back to a server, someone sits there whose job is just filling out CAPTCHAs all day and sends it back, bot takes auth and continues its nefarious deeds is something that is possible). MedaWiki's site might have some clues.-Slitherrr
- Subliminal advertising? I can't figure it either --Msallen
