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Fighting spam can become a full-time job. More popular options either just take care of most of this (Disqus) or have plug-ins to help (WordPress). For suffici
by j_s 10y ago
Fighting spam can become a full-time job. More popular options either just take care of most of this (Disqus) or have plug-ins to help (WordPress).
For sufficiently motivated adversaries, even a custom UI isn't enough of a roadblock.
- Kenji 10y agoEven if you put a CAPTCHA in there?
- j_s 10y agoI think using Google's implementation winds up being enough, but anything homebrew/self-hosted (to avoid tracking) is usually not going to protect high-value targets. Any recommendations would be appreciated!
- Kenji 10y ago>but anything homebrew/self-hosted (to avoid tracking) is usually not going to protect high-value targets. Is it really realistic to expect advanced attacks on CAPTCHAs with visual recognition or Mechanical Turk? I think you'd have to be a very high value target. I wrote a little PHP captcha when I was 15 and I've been using it ever since, and I never got any spam on my (admittedly very low-traffic) sites. I actually wanted to implement visual perturbations based on perlin noise, but I really never got around to doing that. Would be an exciting little project.