Comments on: Upgraded to Wordpress 2.2 http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2007/05/18/upgraded-to-wordpress-22/ Entangled? Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:09:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Martin http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2007/05/18/upgraded-to-wordpress-22/#comment-90990 Martin Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:50:43 +0000 http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2007/05/18/upgraded-to-wordpress-22/#comment-90990 I just installed <a href="http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html" rel="nofollow">reCAPTCHA</a>. I had to hack it a little to make it generate valid html. This is a test comment. I just installed reCAPTCHA. I had to hack it a little to make it generate valid html. This is a test comment.

]]> By: Martin http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2007/05/18/upgraded-to-wordpress-22/#comment-77229 Martin Sat, 26 May 2007 09:33:05 +0000 http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2007/05/18/upgraded-to-wordpress-22/#comment-77229 Wow, I think <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/15522" rel="nofollow">this</a> is the way to do it: using the Internet to correct OCR mistakes. It's a win-win. Wonder if it is available for Wordpress. Wow, I think this is the way to do it: using the Internet to correct OCR mistakes. It’s a win-win. Wonder if it is available for Wordpress.

]]> By: Martin http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2007/05/18/upgraded-to-wordpress-22/#comment-75245 Martin Mon, 21 May 2007 19:52:27 +0000 http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2007/05/18/upgraded-to-wordpress-22/#comment-75245 HAL 9000: I totally agree! But it was a really cheap way of getting rid of spam (for now), as I just used a free plugin for Wordpress. Using humans to teach spam bots how to answer these questions is really smart. Maybe we could make a noise bot, that will fool the porn based harvesters? Hm, it's a war out there - but I still very much prefer to manually kill some spam comments now and then, instead of having to pay some extra Internet tax. Anyway - I might hack the plugin and remove that stupid "This confirms...". :-) HAL 9000: I totally agree! But it was a really cheap way of getting rid of spam (for now), as I just used a free plugin for Wordpress.

Using humans to teach spam bots how to answer these questions is really smart. Maybe we could make a noise bot, that will fool the porn based harvesters? Hm, it’s a war out there - but I still very much prefer to manually kill some spam comments now and then, instead of having to pay some extra Internet tax.

Anyway - I might hack the plugin and remove that stupid “This confirms…”. :-)

]]> By: HAL 9000 http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2007/05/18/upgraded-to-wordpress-22/#comment-75203 HAL 9000 Mon, 21 May 2007 17:56:01 +0000 http://eightflat.org/tracesofmartinsstate/2007/05/18/upgraded-to-wordpress-22/#comment-75203 But Martin?! Answering the stupid question when leaving a comment doesn't really confirm with 100% certainty that the comment was posted by a human user. Not only because designing a good Turing test is very difficult, nor because there may be some overlap between what a human can do, and what a computer can do (that's certainly true for humans and bears, see http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/security_is_a_t.html ), but also because spammers are getting around these tests by harvesting a practically-free resource on the Internet: the desire to see pornography: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39153933,00.htm I think you should change the phrase "This confirms you are a human user!" But Martin?! Answering the stupid question when leaving a comment doesn’t really confirm with 100% certainty that the comment was posted by a human user.

Not only because designing a good Turing test is very difficult, nor because there may be some overlap between what a human can do, and what a computer can do (that’s certainly true for humans and bears, see http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/08/security_is_a_t.html ), but also because spammers are getting around these tests by harvesting a practically-free resource on the Internet: the desire to see pornography: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39153933,00.htm

I think you should change the phrase “This confirms you are a human user!”

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