On 2013-01-21 3:56 AM, "Andre Klapper" aklapper@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Mon, 2013-01-21 at 07:48 +0000, David Gerard wrote:
On 21 January 2013 05:13, Victor Vasiliev vasilvv@gmail.com wrote:
On 01/20/2013 04:22 PM, David Gerard wrote:
The MediaWiki captcha is literally worse than useless: it doesn't
keep
spambots out, and it does keep some humans out.
I don't see how the spambot statement is true. Do you have evidence
for it?
That spambots get through at all.
Evidence is not provided by simply repeating the statement. :)
Does http://elie.im/publication/text-based-captcha-strengths-and-weaknessescount as evidence? (Copied and pasted from the mailing list archives)
Sure captchas do prevent some limitted attacks - it makes it more effort then a 5 minute perl script. Most spammers are more sophisticated than that.
-bawolff