Jun 12, 2024 00:56:47 Martin <[email protected]>: > A simple CAPTCHA reduces some of the irrelevant noise, but the more > sophisticated bots solves the CAPTCHA. > > Using Cloudflare's or Google's CAPTCHA is frowned upon by the real > users, which I fully understand. > > So I was wondering, if some other clever method can reduce the noise?
Testing and knowing all the possible solutions to fight "3rd kind intelligence spammers" seems a little overwhelming to me, it appears to me like the story to search for a firewall that solve every security problem. Indeed just consider that a parameter of curl allow you to simulate any post submission. And the problem eventually could be exactly this, the why of the existance of these advanced clients tools. [ ... ] For now, I just implememted my own captcha asking to solve a simple math and that eventually can be enriched for future research.. Some simple php code, easy stuff, happy to share it. -Dan
