[wp-hackers] Fwd: [kunjan.net] Comment: "The Ansari X Prize"

[Mark Jaquith]

Or, block refererrers to your CAPTCHA that aren't blank, or from your site.

Elliot Anderson wrote:

>If your worried about some porn site using its visitors to crack your
>captcha's... just add a url to your website in the capthca in on of
>the corners or something saying something like "For use on:
>www.abc-blog.com"
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>On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 01:03:10 -0600, Kunjan Shah <kunjan1029 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>u oh......
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>>How about if the Captcha's are watermarked with something? That
>>wouldnt make much of a difference to someone hungry for more and more
>>porn ..... lol
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>>Regards,
>>Kunjan.
>>
>>On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:47:45 +0100, John Sinteur <john at sinteur.com> wrote:
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>>>On Nov 10, 2004, at 6:39 PM, Kunjan Shah wrote:
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>>>>Why? what if there is a human trying to put spam-like comments?
>>>>
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>>>There is, more than one, and they don't even know it. I know this
>>>sounds weird, but I have this from a reliable source. Some porn sites
>>>are giving visitors a CAPTCHA checks (for various bogus claimed
>>>reasons), and the porn-site visitors enter whatever they see, just to
>>>get access to the naughty pictures. What the porn-site visitor doesn't
>>>know is that he is not looking at a CAPTCHA picture for the porn site,
>>>but a CAPTCHA picture for whatever site the porn webmaster wants
>>>'automated' access to.
>>>
>>>So in essence. there's a milion monkeys typing away at all the CAPTCHA
>>>pictures. It's the main reason my own weblog doens't have it.
>>>
>>>-John
>>>
>>>
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