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I wish people stopped trying to solve the CAPTCHA problem with other CAPTCHAs. This proof of concept, while pretty cool from a geek point of view, doesn't do a
by gregschlom 15y ago
I wish people stopped trying to solve the CAPTCHA problem with other CAPTCHAs.
This proof of concept, while pretty cool from a geek point of view, doesn't do anything to solve the problem in a better way.
Stuff like hidden fields, timestamp analysis, crowd-sourced classifiers (like Akismet), on the other hand, do.
- there 15y agoi gave up trying to do creative spam filtering long ago. email address obfuscation, greylisting, etc. i put my domains behind postini (shame they got bought out by google) and never have to deal with spam anymore. my e-mail address is in plain sight in lots of places, and i only get false positives once in a rare while that i have to login to postini and forward to my inbox. same thing with spam comments on my site. i didn't bother with captchas or other annoying requirements like openid. it submits everything through defensio (http://www.defensio.com/ http://www.defensio.com/) on the backend and if it looks like spam, you just have to put in an email address to manually confirm the comment and re-train defensio. otherwise people can leave anonymous comments without any hassles. the amount of comments that need to get manually verified are very low, and i never see spam get through.
- __rkaup__ 15y agoWhy is it a shame that Postini got bought out by Google?