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I've been thinking about this for the past few days. It would seem captchas are an effective tool for screening bots etc out. But what happens once they pass
by clistctrl 16y ago
I've been thinking about this for the past few days. It would seem captchas are an effective tool for screening bots etc out. But what happens once they pass the security line? (the body scanner didn't catch them before boarding the plane...?)
how do you identify a bot post in the wild? It seems to me that there is an equal possibility that a post could be from a bot as it could be from a real person... is there a way to use distributions, and some kind of artificial intelligence to search for fingerprints? Another curious question, how do you test it? Is there any accounts that we for sure have spotted as "probably an intelligence bot"
EDIT: I just got another thought, maybe it would be possible to setup a honey pot?
- omarchowdhury 16y agoI was thinking you could look for mouse movement to determine if it's a bot or a human. Bot writers don't have any need to code this feature in, if the site they're targeting isn't looking for it. But when the site evolves, the spammer will evolve too.
- adrianN 16y agoThat would be quite expensive both for the server and the client. Besides, I certainly wouldn't use a site that tracks my mouse movement to determine whether I'm a human or not.
- JonnieCache 16y ago>look for mouse movement to determine if it's a bot or a human That trick didnt work in the days of AllAdvantage and its ilk and it wont work now :) Ahh... memories... https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Alladvantage#Fraud_and_Abuse https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Alladvantage#...
- jedberg 16y ago> is there a way to use distributions, and some kind of artificial intelligence to search for fingerprints? Yes. :) I wish I could say more, but I don't want to give away the secrets to reddit's spam detection.
- CytokineStorm 16y agoIsn't reddit's code open source? https://github.com/reddit/reddit https://github.com/reddit/reddit Or are there parts (like the spam detection algorithm) that are kept secret?
- jedberg 16y agoWe keep the spam detection parts secret. It is the only part of the code we hide. We wish we didn't have to, but sadly, spam is an arms race.
- knowsnothing613 16y agoyeah, but you can program your bots to train the spam filters. Nothi8ng annoys the user base more than false-positive spam filtering.