[kwlug-disc] OT: wordpress.com email follower spam

[Bob Jonkman]

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Hm. Another idea for a tag team match KWLUG presentation: Static
content management sites. So many to choose from...

I'm using only large, server-intensive sites like WordPress and
Mediawiki, so for this I'd have to be audience, not presenter...

- --Bob.


On 2018-04-13 12:40 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> This is one of the reasons that I'm moving my WordPress based
> sites over to straight HTML...  WP is just such a hacker/spam/bot
> target these days.
> 
> On 13 April 2018 at 12:37, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
> 
>>> It depends on whether solving a captcha is cheap or expensive. 
>>> In my experience the Drupal captchas were cheap to solve and 
>>> can be solved via automated means (but this was a few years 
>>> ago). Weirdly the ASCII captcha did a better job of keeping 
>>> people out than the other ones.
>> 
>> I can't speak for Wordpress.
>> 
>> But for Drupal, I abandoned all captcha solutions.
>> 
>> The one that works for me is the 'antibot' modules. It uses 
>> Javascript, and will filter all automated bots.
>> 
>> It will not stop an actual human though, but on my web sites, 
>> these are not frequent and are not an issue so far.
>> 
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