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How did you accomplish automated forum spamming? Was this the pre-Captcha era where forums were still the Wild West?
by Dracophoenix 5y ago
How did you accomplish automated forum spamming? Was this the pre-Captcha era where forums were still the Wild West?
- PaulHoule 5y agoIt was easier then. Some of the people I was hanging with at the time posted a PHP script (really!) that used a neural net (before deep learning was hot!) to read CAPTCHAs. This crossed a line and got them attacked by (Russian I think) hackers. That incident got a certain anime character investigated by the FBI because that anime character used Tor to connect to the chat room. That anime character told them that they weren't interested in helping them distribute child porn because they knew that child porn was a major enforcement priority for the FBI.
- Dracophoenix 5y agoHanging out with over IRC I presume, not IRL? Why did the script cross a line with the hackers? Was that anime character Detective Conan?