[wsfii-discuss] Spammers appear to have hacked into wsfii site

Tue Oct 28 02:52:26 UTC 2008

I think many such initiatives suffer for the same reason (ie, not enough time for sysops to handle the load), in order to authenticate genuine users. Plus of course the hassles of keeping passwords, for the genuine users.

Captchas can and are being broken today by public ocr service sites, I read not so long back in Slashdot.

 Vickram
http://communicall.wordpress.com
http://vvcrishna.wordpress.com

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From: Alexander List <alex at list.priv.at>
To: Discuss list on the World Summit on Free Information Infrastructure <wsfii-discuss at lists.okfn.org>
Sent: Monday, 27 October, 2008 15:41:37
Subject: Re: [wsfii-discuss] Spammers appear to have hacked into wsfii site

Vickram Crishna wrote:
> Quite right. Naturally, this increases the workload for the sysop, for 
> which the only solution, imo, is to increase the number of sysops, 
> with enough volunteers (3-5 is a good number) that one or the other 
> takes care of it in time.

What about only allowing authenticated users to sign up/post, and to use 
captchas to get rid of those bots?

Alex

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