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If timestamp analysis is effective now, it won't be forever. It would be trivially easy to program an autofiller to leave pseudo-random pauses between filling i

If timestamp analysis is effective now, it won't be forever. It would be trivially easy to program an autofiller to leave pseudo-random pauses between filling individual fields. If this becomes a much more common technique, the spammers will adapt.

JonnieCache 16y ago
This will greatly reduce the rate at which they are able to send the spam though, even if the delay is tiny. Similar to how bcrypt works.
- eli 16y ago
  Good point. Though keep in mind there are spam botnets with thousands and thousands of members.
- smokinn 16y ago
  No it won't, not if their spambot is multi-threaded. (Which all the good ones are.) All it will do is increase the latency, the overall throughput will be pretty much unaffected.