RE: [Full-disclosure] Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal

[Nick FitzGerald <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

php0t wrote:

>   A big part of the problem you mention can be solved by requiring a
> Turing test for the actions that you don't want a bot to be able to do.

I guess you missed all the historic discussion of how cheap it is, in 
"Western" terms, to employ what passes as skilled labour in much of the 
third-world to solve "captcha-like" challenges???

Now, while I'm sure that approach would not be economically viable for 
most large-scale blog-spamming, depending on the blog and the spam, it 
may well be worthwhile for some especially targetted blog-spam, so 
shouldn't be expected to be a singularly successful solution.


Regards,

Nick FitzGerald

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