[TriLUG] Remote access

[Steve Hoffman]

I put a "give me the text in this image" validation for most all of our
external pages that require registration.  We were having a hell of a time
with message board posts that had ads for sex sites etc but that's
practically gone.  We've even gone so far as to add it to most "contact us"
forms as they were getting spammed too.

Most of ours are in PHP, but it couild be done in any language with a bit of
imagemagick...well magic, you can merge a background with a text string.
obviously this won't do jack for the manual spammers..but most bots aren't
sophisticated enough to OCR the text.

Steve


On 6/16/07, WA Brown <brownwa at ftc-i.net> wrote:
>
> I have it set so that I get an email and I have to screen them. I get 10
> or
> so a day. I have the security on the register page as good as I can make
> it.
>
>
> WA Brown
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jonc at nc.rr.com>
> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 1:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Remote access
>
>
> > Force logins to your message boards - or setup moderating, so that all
> > posts must be moderated first. Setting up Deny is NOT going to help. A
> > lot of folk have been dealing with this issue.
> >
> > You can setup ALLOW instead, and let people patition for their IP to be
> > added - but not all folks have static IP's.
> >
> > Good Luck.
> >
> > Jon Carnes
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: WA Brown <brownwa at ftc-i.net>
> > Date: Saturday, June 16, 2007 1:33 am
> > Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Remote access
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
> >
> >> I am having a terrible time with spammers trying to create an
> >> account and
> >> post on my Message board. I dont know how to stop it other than
> >> putting the
> >> Ip's in the deny file. It would take a list of 1000 entries to list
> >> them
> >> all. Anybody have any suggestions?
> >>
> >> WA Brown
> >> www.havenstead.net
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: <jonc at nc.rr.com>
> >> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
> >> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2007 12:57 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Remote access
> >>
> >>
> >> > Generally you use ssh (Secure Shell). If your server is named
> >> > MYSERVER.ORG, the you would type:
> >> >  ssh MYSERVER.ORG
> >> >
> >> > Login and let the hacking begin.
> >> >
> >> > BTW: in days of old folks used "telnet", but not too many folks
> >> do that
> >> > anymore.
> >> >
> >> > HtH - Jon Carnes
> >> >
> >> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> > From: WA Brown <brownwa at ftc-i.net>
> >> > Date: Saturday, June 16, 2007 0:49 am
> >> > Subject: [TriLUG] Remote access
> >> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
> >> >
> >> >> What is the program for me to get into my server with the command
> >> >> line? I
> >> >> cannot remember.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> WAB
> >> >>
> >> >>
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