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On 05/11/2007, Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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On 08/07/07, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This script appears to have been producing exactly the same output since
> June 9. I can't believe it's useful information.
It has one positive aspect for me - it's reassured me that the spate
of spam which hit the new tracker a month or two a
Brett Cannon wrote:
> On 7/7/07, Josiah Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Tracker wrote:
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talin> While it is true that there is an arms race between creators of
talin> social software applications and spammers, this arms race is only
talin> waged the largest scales - spammers simply won't spend the effort
talin> to go after individual sites, its not cost effective, espe
Terry Reedy wrote:
> Why not simply embargo any post with an off-site link? Tho there might
> have been some, I can't remember a single example of such at SF.
I have often posted links off-site because the SF tracker didn't allow
unrelated parties to attach things. I don't know whether the new
Talin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Josiah Carlson wrote:
> > Captchas like this are easily broken using computational methods, or
> > even the porn site trick that was already mentioned. Never mind
> > Stephen's stated belief, that you quoted, that he believes that even the
> > hard captchas are
> Do we know how these spam comments entered the system?
Through the web site. Submission through email is not an
issue: you need to use a registered email address, and
those are hard to guess.
> And has there been any spam submitted since that point?
One day after the tracker was renamed to bu
Talin wrote:
> Josiah Carlson wrote:
>> Captchas like this are easily broken using computational methods, or
>> even the porn site trick that was already mentioned. Never mind
>> Stephen's stated belief, that you quoted, that he believes that even the
>> hard captchas are going to be beaten by com
Josiah Carlson wrote:
> Captchas like this are easily broken using computational methods, or
> even the porn site trick that was already mentioned. Never mind
> Stephen's stated belief, that you quoted, that he believes that even the
> hard captchas are going to be beaten by computational methods
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"Aaron Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If we're going to do CAPTCHA, what we're looking for is something that
> > any 4 year old does automatically, but machines can't do at all.
> > Visual recognition used to be one, but isn't any more. Th
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:python-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen J.
> Turnbull
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 3:10 AM
> To: python-dev@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Summary of Tracker Issues
>
> O.R.Senthil Kumaran
Terry Reedy writes:
> Why not simply embargo any post with an off-site link? Tho there might
> have been some, I can't remember a single example of such at SF.
Fine by me; if it doesn't happen often, then embargoing them would be
fine. My occasional experience with distro reporting processes
On 5/18/07, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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| I think it would be better to do content. URLs come to mind; without
| something clickable, most commercial spam would be hamstrung. But
| few bug reports and
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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| I think it would be better to do content. URLs come to mind; without
| something clickable, most commercial spam would be hamstrung. But
| few bug reports and patches need to contain URLs, except for
| specializ
O.R.Senthil Kumaran writes:
> :-) My idea was, a human got to answer it unscrambled as 'fourth' as he
> "understands" what the question is and gives the proper answer.
> Agreed, there could be confusion at first.
But for any given user, there's only going to be a first. Either they
pass the
* Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-18 13:06:41]:
>
> > Site: What is the futorh word of tihs scnnteee?
> > Answer: fourth.
>
> Are you sure it isn't "futorh"?-)
>
:-) My idea was, a human got to answer it unscrambled as 'fourth' as he
"understands" what the question is and gives the pro
O.R.Senthil Kumaran wrote:
> Site: What is the futorh word of tihs scnnteee?
>
> Answer: fourth.
Are you sure it isn't "futorh"?-)
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Greg
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* Andrew McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-17 15:30:43 +1000]:
> technique could be used, but my suspicion is that real people are being
> paid a pittance to sit in front of a PC and spam anything that moves.
http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
Complete simple tasks that people do better than
O.R.Senthil Kumaran schrieb:
> * Scott Dial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-17 11:04:46]:
>
>> However, it may also be because instead of using a graphic (which is
>> easily transplanted to another page), it uses ascii art which would
>> require more effort to extract and move to another page.
>
>
* Scott Dial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-17 11:04:46]:
> However, it may also be because instead of using a graphic (which is
> easily transplanted to another page), it uses ascii art which would
> require more effort to extract and move to another page.
Another approach would be a 'text scram
Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:17 -0700, Talin wrote:
>> Here's a simple method: Put up a free porn site [...]
>
> Is it known that someone actually implemented this?
I moderate a discussion forum which was abused with this exact attack.
At the time, it was a phpBB forum which h
On 5/17/07, Hrvoje Nikšić <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:17 -0700, Talin wrote:
> > Here's a simple method: Put up a free porn site [...]
>
> Is it known that someone actually implemented this? It's a neat trick,
> but as far as I know, it started as a thought experiment of
Talin wrote:
> Here's a simple method: Put up a free porn site, with a front page that
> says "you must be 18 or older to enter". The page also has a captcha to
> verify that you are a real person. But here's the trick: The captcha is
> actually a proxy to some other site that the spammer is try
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:17 -0700, Talin wrote:
> Here's a simple method: Put up a free porn site [...]
Is it known that someone actually implemented this? It's a neat trick,
but as far as I know, it started as a thought experiment of what *could*
be done to fairly easily defeat the captchas, as
>> However - once you knock these out, there is still a steady stream of
>> what are clearly human generated spams. The mind boggles at the economics
>> or desperation that make this worthwhile.
>
>Actually, it doesn't cost that much, because typically the spammer can
>trick other humans into doin
Andrew McNamara wrote:
>> Typically spammers don't go through the effort to do a custom login
>> script for each different site. Instead, they do a custom login script
>> for each of the various software applications that support end-user
>> comments. So for example, there's a script for WordPre
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