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This only mitigates spam if your forum is small enough for spammers to not care. Those questions are a mere extra parameter on the registration post request. Sp
by nodja 9y ago
This only mitigates spam if your forum is small enough for spammers to not care. Those questions are a mere extra parameter on the registration post request. Spam software automatically detects those and asks a human to fill it. If the question is static it's even easier than a captcha solver.
- ryacko 9y agoSpam is done by massive botnets that crawl the web at a rate nearly equal to Google's.
- AFNobody 9y agoAnd they have their equivalents of Amazon's Mechanical TURK to learn how to bypass security questions. https://2captcha.com/public_statistics https://2captcha.com/public_statistics <- this for example You can find humans willing to work for $0.001/captcha.
- littlestymaar 9y agoI've also read that some torrent or other illegal download website display captchas that are in fact captchas from other websites, to crowdsource the captcha bypass.
- AFNobody 9y agoCorrect. There is a long list of human farming options they employ. They frequently use that one then "pretend" they have workers.