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Some spam bots are human
Out of curiosity I've taken a look at what kind of spam is now getting through our automated defenses. I did a little digging and confirmed a long held suspicion. In a nutshell, …
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comment spam countermeasures (mollom, honeypots, hashcash, bad behavior)
The spam situation has recently gotten a bit out of hand and automated defenses have been giving in. I've taken a close look at the problem and implemented a gauntlet of spam …
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The DDoS spam bot from hell (a suburb of China)
Happy new year everyone, I'm back online to put out a fire. My inbox was full of alerts that the CPU on the server that runs the site was maxing out. Well boys and girls, it turns …
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Time for a human readable privacy policy?
Up until now TurnKey hasn't had an explicit privacy policy, and that seemed ok because no one ever asked about it. But now that the latest release integrates TurnKey appliances …
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Headless PHP Drupal script deletes spam zombie user accounts
For for the last few months automatic bots have been creating hundreds of zombie accounts per day on the TurnKey web site. I'm not sure why they bother. I assume it has …