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Originally posted by Denny View PostWhy is it that we have to type in those funny security words and letters whenever we want to sign up to anything? Why are they written in such an odd, skewed way they are hardly readable at all?Originally posted by Denny View PostI'm so bright I need to wear shades when I look in the mirror, so there!Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostThey have. Some of the crafty spamming sods have taken to presenting captcha images elsewhere for manual input on some other pretext, and when two or three manually typed replies agree they can go back and use the matching input to get past the captcha stage in the original app. I guess the only way to prevent that is to time-limit captcha input.
About time somebody found a use for adolescent boys
Originally posted by BrilloPad View Postso then why have the one on http://www.notagoodsite.com/ ?
For security purposes - Please enter the sum of the day number and the month number eg Day = 6 + Month = 2
Enter 8 in the box!
Apologies in advance if this is a really stupid question!
The thing is, unless you're an organisation with an open invitation to spammers like Yahoo! Mail or Microsoft Hotmail, you don't really need anything very complex - just enough to prevent blog spam is sufficient for most purposes.
Jeff Attwood has, for at least a couple of years, been asking every visitor to type in the word "orange", and that seems to be quite enough for his needs.
One friend of mine had a checkbox you had to tick to say "I am not a spammer" - worked a treat.
But there's lots of people who are somehow convinced that if they don't have some preposterously complicated bit of overkill in everybody's way, the Evil Foreign Pill Peddlers will spam them to hell and back. Hello, people, your website is not that significantComment
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostSorry, somewhere there's a dichotomy.
I've noticed on here that some of the more technie geeks are pretty bad at constructing a convincing argument and can't see the wood for the trees.
Intelligence comes in a variety of ways.Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostBecause if it was easy to read, a piece of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software would be able to read it, thereby defeating the whole purpose.Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostThe thing is, unless you're an organisation with an open invitation to spammers like Yahoo! Mail or Microsoft Hotmail, you don't really need anything very complex - just enough to prevent blog spam is sufficient for most purposes.Comment
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Somebody, somewhere is working on a different kind of scheme - something like kitten or puppy. Apparently it's quite hard for a computer to tell the difference.
Read about it on b3ta. Or the Register. Can't remember which.
HTH"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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Originally posted by TheFaQQer View PostIndeed - Akismet Spam has caught over 15000 spam blog comments on MrsF's website so far. She gets over 100 spam comments a day on her website, but this seems to catch most if not all of them.Comment
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Originally posted by Denny View PostNo there isn't. I've got two good degrees from a premier league university. So I can't be thick. I've got a very agile mind. Not knowing a techie question is no test of intelligence unless you want to make a career out of being a geek.
Originally posted by Denny View PostI've noticed on here that some of the more technie geeks are pretty bad at constructing a convincing argument ...Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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