On 11/18/09 11:30 PM, Evgeniy Khramtsov wrote: > Peter Viskup wrote: >> What does your expression - 'uncontrolled registration' - mean? >> What is the definition of 'controlled registration'? >> How do you check if the jabber server has 'controlled registration'? >> > > From my point 'uncontrolled' means: no captcha or no per-IP time > limitation - both of them leads to the ability for massive unlimited > registration by automated software (bots). > By the way, I've found out that even time limitation doesn't provide a > good protection from massive registrations: there is a malware which > traverses the list of public server and registers one account per an > iteration on each server in the list. The problem will become more acute > when there will be hundreds of thousands of public servers available in > the list.
We could always do away with the public list. :) Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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