> Unfortunately, reCAPTCHA might be a victim of its own success - as of > 2011, some spammers appear to have figured out a way to bypass it, > either through character recognition or by using humans. For that > reason, it is not necessarily recommended.
I can confirm this. On another site that I manage, based on phpBB, I get unbelievable amounts of spambot requests to open accounts. Apparently, simple graphical captchas no longer hold them back. I think math captchas are a good idea. Plus, it's free brain exercise :) Cheers, Ben > Part of the weakness of the ReCaptcha module is that ConfirmEdit > doesn't include any penalty mechanism, so spam bots can simply keep > trying to bypass the CAPTCHA until they get through. This is an issue > that is strongly worth addressing in some way. > > Martin > > [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Confirmedit > > -- > Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa > _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
