On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Arcane 21 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Spammers might be using something similar to the IPfuck Firefox/Chrome 
> extension, which fakes an IP address instead of allowing the real IP to be 
> recorded, not sure how we can defend against that sort of thing at present.

MediaWiki doesn't trust the XFF header unless it's from a trusted
proxy, so the user's real IP would be reported.

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