Well, my log output shows the spam bots are entering valid responses. I have to assume that recaptcha has simply been broken, either legitimately or through response poisoning... guess I'll switch to another captcha type.
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Sol Invictus <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll try to take a look at the extension's code tonight to see if I > can find it... was hoping someone had already identified the problem. > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:03 PM, OQ <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote: >>> There is probably some weakness inside recaptcha plugin (or they simply >>> broke recaptcha), as I have seen other wikis heavily spammed albeit >>> using recaptcha. >>> >> >> Back at the beginning of Jan all my sites that use reCaptcha started >> getting lots of spam so it's not limited to mediawiki. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
