Sol, I'd like to confirm your analysis. I switched from ReCaptcha to
QuestyCaptcha with a custom question
<http://www.pwsnotes.org/Special:RecentChanges?title=Special:UserLogin&type=signup&returnto=Special:RecentChanges>
and have seen no further spam.
So, it looks like someone has programmed a
MediaWiki/ConfirmEdit-focused spambot that can defeat SimpleCatcha
(simple math problems) and -- shockingly -- ReCaptcha. But not that
they're using human beings to do the spamming. So, QuestyCaptcha, for
now, still works well.
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Dan Kohn <mailto:dan@dankohn.com>
tel:+1-646-833-8291
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Sol Invictus <solinvic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't think that's the case; my logs show
pretty much instant data
entry. They must have found some way to break the service itself. I
switched to Questy with some simple things like "type the word X" or
"sum(2,3)" and it seems to be blocking them all so far.
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Dan Kohn <dan(a)dankohn.com> wrote:
My
www.PWSNotes.org MediaWiki site, which
I've operated since 2004,
has been overrun with spam in the last month. I used Nuke to clean it
up. Unfortunately, neither ConfirmEdit with ReCaptcha nor
SpamBlacklist is stopping the spammers. I interpret this as meaning
that real people are doing the spamming. I just installed
ConfirmAccount, which I expect should bring the spam to an end, at the
unfortunate cost of making it harder for new people to contribute to
our community.
Bummer.
--
Dan Kohn <mailto:dan@dankohn.com>
tel:+1-646-833-8291
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