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In case you haven't heard, a very popular and effective way to foil spambots has been the inclusion of a hidden FORM field, which the user won't see and won't f

In case you haven't heard, a very popular and effective way to foil spambots has been the inclusion of a hidden FORM field, which the user won't see and won't fill out. The bot dutifully fills out the field, sends an HTTP POST, and is busted for looking at the HTML source. Have a nice day.

graftak 3y ago
And it’s called a honeypot.
ttfkam 3y ago
Useful against the lone hacker. Far less useful against a botnet where the source IPs are both constantly changing and not necessarily a bad actor, just compromised. But sure. Security measures from 1998 have their place too, I guess.