[wp-forums] Support forum registration now has a re-captcha on it

[Drew]

@ozh has a pretty good "matching" captcha over on http://scr.im but I think
he told me it was proprietary when I asked about it one time.

A matching approach as opposed to typing in letters might be something
worth looking at too.


On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Aaron Nimocks <aaron_nimocks at yahoo.com>wrote:

> > > On 1/8/13, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
> > >> I know, but dammit, this is ridiculous.
> > >>
> > >> Alternative approach suggestions would be welcome.
> > >>
> > >> Sorry for the brevity and typos, sent from my phone.
>
> Well the best way to avoid these also takes some programming and might be
> kind of in depth depending on how the user system is done.
>
> But the bots work by getting the name and ID of the fields to fill or
> field position.  So right now the user name is user_login which is pretty
> easy.  To make it harder you have to randomize these names and positions
> each load.
>
> So there are 11 fields to fill, you would randomize their position where
> they are displayed.
>
> Then the 11 fields you randomize the ID/NAME for each field with some 8
> character random code.  The hard part is when you submit the form all those
> ID/NAMES need to match on the processing side.  So this is where the time
> consuming programming change would come in.
>
> There's how you can avoid the majority of spam registrations.  Too bad it
> isn't as simple to implement.
>
> You can manually change some positions and the ID/NAME of user name to see
> how many less you get just to see if you think it is viable.
>
>
> Aaron
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