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 Post subject: Updates.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:02 pm 
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I'm going to be doing a board update in an hour or so. This usually take seconds and nothing dies... :snoop: So grab your balls and cross your fingers.

Still working on a way to kill all these spammers. I set the board to email me when a new account signs up so I can approve it and I have been getting a few emails an hour.


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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:10 pm 
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I should read slower...I just attempted to cross my balls.


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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:13 pm 
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Chuck wrote:
I set the board to email me when a new account signs up so I can approve it and I have been getting a few emails an hour.


That does sound suspicious...

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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:17 pm 
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Hounsy wrote:
I should read slower...I just attempted to cross my balls.


:aaa: That is a bad idea.


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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:04 pm 
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All clear.

Report any oddities. Wait, no, let me rephrase that...
Report any oddities that are not the people that use this board.


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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 12:08 am 
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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:54 am 
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After a bunch of digging I found that a group of spammers figured out an automated way to read the random captcha text when signing up for an account. Motherfuckers.
Good thing is: The software I'm using for the board will be patched to fix this.
Bad thing is: Who knows when the patch will be.

So here is what I did:
I added a custom field to user profiles that is required info when you sign up. I made it a simple math problem. I wonder how long it will be before bots can get around it but so far it has been 8 hours with no spammers signing up. Hopefully this holds up for a bit. :cthulhu:


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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:24 am 
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Chuck wrote:
After a bunch of digging I found that a group of spammers figured out an automated way to read the random captcha text when signing up for an account. Motherfuckers.
Good thing is: The software I'm using for the board will be patched to fix this.
Bad thing is: Who knows when the patch will be.

So here is what I did:
I added a custom field to user profiles that is required info when you sign up. I made it a simple math problem. I wonder how long it will be before bots can get around it but so far it has been 8 hours with no spammers signing up. Hopefully this holds up for a bit. :cthulhu:


Why not say to type in the 2nd, 4th and 6th letters of the captcha image or something? Or add a second image and get letters from both?

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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 10:25 am 
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math problem to register?

thank god i registered before this or i would never make it back

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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:14 pm 
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BoscUlrichIII wrote:

Why not say to type in the 2nd, 4th and 6th letters of the captcha image or something? Or add a second image and get letters from both?


Honestly? Because I didn't think of that. That is a damn good idea. The math problem only took like 10 seconds to throw together as a quick bandaid.


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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:18 pm 
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How the fuck did they automate reading the captcha images, anyways?

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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:38 pm 
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I have no idea. They must have had some really heavy OCR shit going on. I fucked with the capcha image generator so it made it hard for even me to read and they still got through. It got to the point that I was thinking that they had somehow put real humans behind it.


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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:42 pm 
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Chuck wrote:
I have no idea. They must have had some really heavy OCR shit going on. I fucked with the capcha image generator so it made it hard for even me to read and they still got through. It got to the point that I was thinking that they had somehow put real humans behind it.


They must have gotten their hands on common generator code or something... iiam:

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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:06 pm 
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BoscUlrichIII wrote:

They must have gotten their hands on common generator code or something... iiam:


That makes the most sense. Goddamn cockholster spamming motherfuckers. I hope they all die in a fire.


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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
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Chuck wrote:
BoscUlrichIII wrote:

They must have gotten their hands on common generator code or something... iiam:


That makes the most sense. Goddamn cockholster spamming motherfuckers. I hope they all die in a fire.


Yeah! A fire of burning turds!


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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
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Stinky wrote:
Chuck wrote:
BoscUlrichIII wrote:

They must have gotten their hands on common generator code or something... iiam:


That makes the most sense. Goddamn cockholster spamming motherfuckers. I hope they all die in a fire.


Yeah! A fire of burning turds!


While getting teabagged by dead bears.

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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:57 pm 
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BoscUlrichIII wrote:
Stinky wrote:
Chuck wrote:
BoscUlrichIII wrote:

They must have gotten their hands on common generator code or something... iiam:


That makes the most sense. Goddamn cockholster spamming motherfuckers. I hope they all die in a fire.


Yeah! A fire of burning turds!


While getting teabagged by dead bears.

Please leave Razz out of this.


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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
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Stinky wrote:
BoscUlrichIII wrote:
Stinky wrote:
Chuck wrote:
BoscUlrichIII wrote:

They must have gotten their hands on common generator code or something... iiam:


That makes the most sense. Goddamn cockholster spamming motherfuckers. I hope they all die in a fire.


Yeah! A fire of burning turds!


While getting teabagged by dead bears.

Please leave Razz out of this.


Razz isn't a spammer. He's the guy keeping them in business by giving them his credit card info.

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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
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BoscUlrichIII wrote:
Stinky wrote:
BoscUlrichIII wrote:
Stinky wrote:
Chuck wrote:
BoscUlrichIII wrote:

They must have gotten their hands on common generator code or something... iiam:


That makes the most sense. Goddamn cockholster spamming motherfuckers. I hope they all die in a fire.


Yeah! A fire of burning turds!


While getting teabagged by dead bears.

Please leave Razz out of this.


Razz isn't a spammer. He's the guy keeping them in business by giving them his credit card info.

That was about the comment 'tea bagging by dead bears'

I thought you were referring to him.


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 Post subject: Re: Updates.
PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 7:27 pm 
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Stinky wrote:
BoscUlrichIII wrote:
Stinky wrote:
BoscUlrichIII wrote:
Stinky wrote:
Chuck wrote:
BoscUlrichIII wrote:

They must have gotten their hands on common generator code or something... iiam:


That makes the most sense. Goddamn cockholster spamming motherfuckers. I hope they all die in a fire.


Yeah! A fire of burning turds!


While getting teabagged by dead bears.

Please leave Razz out of this.


Razz isn't a spammer. He's the guy keeping them in business by giving them his credit card info.

That was about the comment 'tea bagging by dead bears'

I thought you were referring to him.


Not referring to him so I took it as you saying Razz was the spammer getting teabagged.

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