With the comment spam continuing to pour in I caved in a and implemented captchas for comments. While a solution using mathematical computation such as that offered by the match captcha plugin for wordpress, since the are only host defendant (rather than having to rely on some other 3rd-party service), this particular plugin was only [...]
Implementing Captchas
August 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment
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Wierdo comment spam
August 19th, 2008 · No Comments
The last few weeks has seen a deluge of comment spam, which mostly is the run of the mill bot based stuff advertising ‘cheap hosting’ , porn and other such sites. a couple tht cought my attention were simple posts of urls with the following sort of format:
http://www.google.com/search?q=rxbcrobh
http://www.google.com/search?q=frhlrxca
http://www.google.com/search?q=omihinga
Searching on google with these links, surprisingly turns [...]
