full-disclosure - Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal

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Message-ID: <009601c6304b$7c083170$0200a8c0@DORKA>
Date: Mon Feb 13 03:13:48 2006
From: very at unprivate.com (php0t)
Subject: Comment Spam: new trends,
	failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal


  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.

php0t


> Recently, new bots rendered current anti spam techniques for blogs 
> almost useless. Here is a short write-up on the subject of comment
spam, 
> referrer spam and what's currently happening in that area.