Hi Lucas, Well defined deep learning algorithms have emerged that can read text and numbers that are embedded within images in real time. I believe Captcha is about to become obsoleted by these advances.
I haven't heard about any spammer's using these algorithms yet, but it seems to me it is only a matter of time. enjoy, Karen -- Karen Shaeffer Be aware: If you see an obstacle in your path, Neuralscape Services that obstacle is your path. Zen proverb On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 06:14:25AM -0700, Lucas Forschler wrote: > I’ve removed WIKI_CREATE and WIKI_MODIFY permissions from the ‘authenticated' > and ‘developer' groups. Removing from the authenticated group may have been > enough, but I wanted to be certain to stop spam and get it under control > before loosening permissions. > > I’ve also attempted to delete all the spam posts, and revert any > modifications to other pages. > > Looks like the following email addresses were used: > tom24...@gmail.com > anna.rasca...@gmail.com > emaxi...@gmail.com > mailme.jo...@rediffmail.com <mailto:mailme.jo...@rediffmail.com> > > I believe we can turn on the Captcha mechanism, which may help alleviate some > spam. I’ll continue to investigate. > Lucas > > > On Apr 17, 2016, at 5:27 AM, Lucas Forschler <lforsch...@apple.com> wrote: > > > > I’m investigating now. > > It looks like trac also has some spam filter ability: > > https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SpamFilter > > <https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/SpamFilter> > > > > Lucas > > > >> On Apr 16, 2016, at 7:07 PM, Darin Adler <da...@apple.com > >> <mailto:da...@apple.com>> wrote: > >> > >> We are definitely going to have to change the policy on the wiki. The spam > >> is being posted from multiple different email addresses, so banning > >> accounts is not going to be sufficient. > >> > >> Who knows how to turn off modification to the Wiki while we decide how to > >> lock it down? > >> > >> — Darin > >> _______________________________________________ > >> webkit-dev mailing list > >> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org <mailto:webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org> > >> https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > > webkit-dev mailing list > > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev --- end quoted text --- _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
