http://isuseful.com/blog/2006/03/no-spam-here-missus/ The blog of Matt Hobbs, Technical Product Manager Fri, 18 May 2012 23:49:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://isuseful.com/blog/2006/03/no-spam-here-missus/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Matt Hobbs Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:59:00 +0000 http://nu.isuseful.com/2006/03/no-spam-here-missus/#comment-3 Yeah - it was pretty easy. The whole <a HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha" REL="nofollow">captcha</a> thing is always amusing having tried to implement a few myself. I'm always fascinated by the constant unilateral escalation between reasonable people and spammers in their attempts to out-thwart each other. My fave captcha work-around is when the spammers use porn site signups where they embed the real captcha from another site as part of the signup - ie, they get people to do their dirty work for them. Sneaky but genius. Yeah - it was pretty easy. The whole captcha thing is always amusing having tried to implement a few myself. I’m always fascinated by the constant unilateral escalation between reasonable people and spammers in their attempts to out-thwart each other. My fave captcha work-around is when the spammers use porn site signups where they embed the real captcha from another site as part of the signup - ie, they get people to do their dirty work for them. Sneaky but genius.

]]> http://isuseful.com/blog/2006/03/no-spam-here-missus/comment-page-1/#comment-2 sandra Thu, 16 Mar 2006 02:34:00 +0000 http://nu.isuseful.com/2006/03/no-spam-here-missus/#comment-2 As long as their word recognition thing isn't a complete nightmare (a la some others, which make it nearly impossible to decipher letters without a magnifying glass), I'm all about it. As long as their word recognition thing isn’t a complete nightmare (a la some others, which make it nearly impossible to decipher letters without a magnifying glass), I’m all about it.

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