Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 05/01/07 20:51

Tina Peters wrote:
> "Leif K-Brooks" <eurleif@ecritters.biz> wrote in message
> news:46375460$0$20597$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net...
>> Tina Peters wrote:
>>> and yet, I've been using it for close to a year with ZERO spam issues.
>> That's because spammers typically go for the very low-hanging fruit and
>> ignore everything else; it has nothing to do with the merits of your
>> 'CAPTCHA'.
>
>
> Thank you for making the argument for my form (which I never said was
> CAPTCHA). ;-)


No you allude to it by offing it as a solution to posters looking for
CAPTCHA. Your make your bogus "security" code look like a CAPTCHA
*image* by randomizing the color and font faces but it still is just
plain old character data.

The principle behind the *security* in CAPTCHA is that the characters
are represented as distorted binary data images of the characters which
can neither be recognized as characters nor OCR converted! You form is
*no more effective* than adding an input field with an unexpected name
say "monkey"

<label for="monkey">Enter 'monkey' in this box</label>
<input name="monkey" id="monkey" type="text">

Spammers would not be expecting a required "monkey" field.

>
> I never said my form couldn't be cracked. I'm saying that spam bots have no
> reason to try to get around it and will probably be a very long time before
> they even try. In the almost year that I've been using it, we went from
> about 99% bot generated spam to 1% legitimate email ratio from our
> form....to 100% legit. That's ZERO bot generated spams for almost a year.
> For $10, its more than worth it.
>
> Also, as you so rightly suggested, guess which method spammers are going to
> try to get around first? CAPTCHA, which millions of sites currently
> use...or my form, which *maybe* 200 people use. Do you honestly think
> CAPTCHA is 100% spam proof? I'm sure that's not what you're trying to
> imply.

As long as your "security" script remains obscure no one will bother to
hack it but that is no excuse to sell it under the pretext of what is is
not! You are just scamming the ignorant.

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Take care,

Jonathan
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http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

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