Re: human validation on post comments

From: "Dave Page" <dpage(at)vale-housing(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "David Fetter" <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, "PostgreSQL WWW" <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: human validation on post comments
Date: 2006-03-21 08:12:05
Message-ID: E7F85A1B5FF8D44C8A1AF6885BC9A0E4011C961F@ratbert.vale-housing.co.uk
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
> [mailto:pgsql-www-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of David Fetter
> Sent: 21 March 2006 05:43
> To: PostgreSQL WWW
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] human validation on post comments
>
> Actually, they've already got one, and here's how it works:
>
> 1. Put up a free porn site.
> 2. Present somebody else's capcha image as an entry.
> 3. Let the person see the porn if they've correctly cracked the
> capcha.
> 4. Spam site.
>
> The sad part of this one is that they don't have to crack any single
> capcha system. Instead, they've cracked the entire capcha process.

Grrr, where's my baseball bat?

Actually though that shouldn't be too much of a problem as long as the
images timeout after a few minutes- and we still have all the normal
moderation in place.

Regards, Dave.

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