Re: Beneficial site spamming framework

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On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 01:59 +0200, Maciek Sokolewicz wrote:

> On 11-10-2012 22:18, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> >>> I've been getting spam comments on my personal blog (runs on
> >>> self-written PHP blog software). I'd like to test some methods I've
> >>> devised to prevent or block it. Does anyone know of a very
> >> lightweight
> >>> framework for simulating an automated "form fill-out" on a site?
> >>> Something where you could just add some code to designate the site
> >> for
> >>> the "attack" and then what fields you wanted to send?
> >>>
> >>> This should be a relatively simple task for PHP and curl, but I'm not
> >>> really familiar with the headers and that part of the HTTP
> >> conversation.
> >>> Yes, I know this is a risky question for a public list. Feel free to
> >>> contact me privately if you think the answer shouldn't be in the
> >>> archives of a public list. Likewise, if you can point me to a source
> >> of
> >>> quickly absorbable research on the subject. I frankly don't know how
> >> I'd
> >>> google such a thing.
> >>>
> >>> Paul
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Paul M. Foster
> >>> http://noferblatz.com
> >>> http://quillandmouse.com
> >>>
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> >
> > To avoid having to create your own anti-spam system, I recommend Akismet, which weights posts allowing you to set a rejection threshold. The great thing is that it is constantly improving over time.
> >
> I've recently looked into the more modern captcha systems. I personally 
> can't stand the "standard" captcha of having to decipher what characters 
> are present on a distorted image. The last few years I've noticed that 
> more and more often I can't decipher what an image is supposed to say. 
> And after a few tries of unsuccesful replying what the image says, I 
> just give up. This seems to be a reverse-Turing-test by now. Computers 
> being able to guess better than humans.
> 
> Anyway, I wrote my own captcha system. I've noticed that simple things 
> like "what is the capital of the USA?" and then being able to choose 
> "Hong-Kong, Washington or Rome" or a question like "Is water wet or 
> dry?" work very very well. Just make up a bunch of these, and then 
> randomly pick one to have people answer on your blog. It completely 
> stopped registration spam on my forum. Simply because bots don't 
> understand such questions.
> 
> - Tul


There's a slight irony that this message got posted to the list 5 times,
given the topic :p

-- 
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk



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