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RE: Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:35:26 +1300
php0t wrote:
A big part of the problem you mention can be solved by requiring a Turing test for the actions that you don't want a bot to be able to do.
I guess you missed all the historic discussion of how cheap it is, in "Western" terms, to employ what passes as skilled labour in much of the third-world to solve "captcha-like" challenges??? Now, while I'm sure that approach would not be economically viable for most large-scale blog-spamming, depending on the blog and the spam, it may well be worthwhile for some especially targetted blog-spam, so shouldn't be expected to be a singularly successful solution. Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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