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

Tue Oct 28 07:31:22 UTC 2008

Vickram,

Anything can be broken but CAPTCHAS reduce the number of intruders.

What are the other options?

Jeff

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 02:52 +0000, Vickram Crishna wrote:
> 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
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> 
> 
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> From: Alexander List <alex at list.priv.at>
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> 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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