Spambots beating captcha 2.2
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Are you sure that you did switch off joomla core registration and set CB's setting to allow registrations, independently of joomla core, like explained in CB's README ?
Probably your bots were registering without CB and CB captcha
Even if yes, Recaptcha isn't a solution in itself:
1. Often, spammers do pay very low labor force to manualy register. Any captcha solution won't help in that.
See blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/ for more info on how bad that spammers and internet criminals plague is. :angry:
CB powering lots of registration pages, CB captcha too, if it wasn't secure it would be known fast.
2. Don't get me started regarding "google's noble cause" as you call it of collecting offline information by scaning librariries "for free" and then making online users work free for them using their captcha.
Try using the Internet without google Inc. (or is it Ltd. ?) for a week.
3. Do you know that by installing google's recaptcha on your form, you at same time are potentially giving them full access to all the data on that registration form to their remote servers ?!
I will not use recaptcha or any third-party server -powered captcha solution on my registration forms, sorry. I don't recommend it to you too, but you are free.
That's why we wrote CB Captcha the hard way.
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You are right, captchas are only an obstacle. The chance that your site is that important that somebody will pay for this service is less then with a captcha readable by bots.Even if yes, Recaptcha isn't a solution in itself:
1. Often, spammers do pay very low labor force to manualy register. Any captcha solution won't help in that.
You are right, I did not read the pages enough. I did not know that google is behind that. I fully understand that you do not trust 3rd party callback software.*2. Don't get me started regarding "google's noble cause" as you call it of collecting offline information by scaning librariries "for free" and then making online users work free for them using their captcha.
Try using the Internet without google Inc. (or is it Ltd. ?) for a week.
3. Do you know that by installing google's recaptcha on your form, you at same time are potentially giving them full access to all the data on that registration form to their remote servers ?!
I will not use recaptcha or any third-party server -powered captcha solution on my registration forms, sorry. I don't recommend it to you too, but you are free.
That's why we wrote CB Captcha the hard way.
OT: * What about upcoming subcriptions, afaik it will also phone home. How do I know that I can trust you? Or will there at least be a version wich I can pay and which does not phone home?
Greets,
ndee
Post edited by: ndee, at: 2009/01/16 21:56
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