We should forget about small efficiencies — Donald Knuth
25 Jul
Picturing the New Spam, from digg.
The volume of the spam contains images has more than doubled since April, according to analysis by anti-spam vendor IronPort Systems. Image-based spam accounts for 21% of all spam, compared with just 1% in late 2005, IronPort says.
不過這讓我想到之前看到的消息: PWNtcha 來解讀 Blog 或是註冊網頁上常見的 CAPTCHA, 已經有相當高的辨識率. 原因就是簡單的 CAPTCHA 都是固定字型、固定位置、沒有顏色變化這類固定的規則, 所以就比較容易被識破.
而 WordPress 的 Plugin AuthImage, MovableType 的 Plugin SCode, PWNtcha 都有 100% 的偵測率. 雖說 Image Spam (aka Content Spam) 可能情況複雜點, 不過應該還是有一定規則才是.
PS: 所謂的 CAPTCHA 用例子來說最快了! 就是下面的圖片:

如果可以回答的出來是 “smwm”, 那就是通過了這個測試.
CAPTCHA 是 Carnegie Mellon University 註冊的商標, 是在資訊領域中, 用來測試使用者是真正的人, 還是自動化程式的 challenge-response 方法之一. 常見的也就是上面的例子.
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One Response for "Picturing the New Spam"
WordPress Trackback Spam!!!
I have installed plugins that prevent comment spams, but this won't prevent trackback to be blocked. I've been spam by many
MFA websites that most probably is from the same network with trackback, but they are not linking me on their website. May I
know how do they do it and how do I stop it? Without disabling trackback?
Thanks, and I'm using WordPress.
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