[Python-Dev] Summary of Tracker Issues (original) (raw)

Scott Dial scott+python-dev at scottdial.com
Thu May 17 17:04:46 CEST 2007

Hrvoje Niksic wrote:

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:17 -0700, Talin wrote:

Here's a simple method: Put up a free porn site [...] Is it known that someone actually implemented this?

I moderate a discussion forum which was abused with this exact attack. At the time, it was a phpBB forum which had the standard graphical captcha. After switching to a different forum package, the attacks went away. I will assume because (as it has been said) it was no longer a well-known and common interface.

However, it may also be because instead of using a graphic (which is easily transplanted to another page), it uses ascii art which would require more effort to extract and move to another page.

-Scott

-- Scott Dial scott at scottdial.com scodial at cs.indiana.edu

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