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RE: Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal
From: "php0t" <very () unprivate com>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 05:54:27 +0100
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???
Actually I didn't, this is exactly why I wrote 'big part of the problem' (that maybe you missed). I thought a very big percentage was related to only bots doing the spamming, and just a smaller percentage hiring real life people to spam for them or just solve the captcha-like challenges (in which case the Turing test isn't a solution).
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.
Yep.. I repeat. 'Big part of the problem'. Which is nowhere near 'singularly successful solution'. Let's suppose 20% of that spam you see is posted by people doing this all day, getting paid for it. It's probably much less, but this is all a guess, nothing more. Would it not be a solution for the other 80% ? Of course, if you have some statistics that tell me I terribly underestimated that overestimation of 20%, or just introduce new elements that I did not consider, do not hesitate to show it to me, I'm happy with accepting facts. php0t _______________________________________________ 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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