Hi everyone,
We got spammed by two new forum accounts this weekend. I've removed the accounts, but it begs the question ... how did this happen?
Forum registration requires a "type the numbers in the image" check and a "click this email" authentication check before posting is allowed.
This means the accounts could both read funky image numbers *and* clicked through the link from their inbox (with a valid email address).
Either spambots have gotten smarter or these were actual humans, which we can't really protect against without requiring moderator approval of all new accounts.
Anyway, just letting you all know that I'm watching, researching, and considering the problem carefully.
Take care, Tim
-- Timothy Falconer Squeakland Foundation http://squeakland.org 610-797-3100
I'm circulating this change-set via the etoys-dev mailing list instead of posting it on JIRA because JIRA is temporarily not allowing us to post files...
"Change Set: navBar-sw-mz-yo Date: 14 July 2009 Author: Scott Wallace, Milan Zimmermann, Yoshiki Oshima
Adds a control at topright of screen/window to govern visibility of the full nav bar.
When opening 'old' projects, the nav bar will now appear in its collapsed form, at the top-right corner of the screen, to minimize the chance of obscuring essential content. The criterion for oldness is: any project lacking a 'manifest' is considered old, as is any project whose manifest indicates a version code that is not 'etoys'.
This update is derived from work done under the following two JIRA items: SQ-154 Make it simple to show and hide the toolbar SQ-280 Detect the version of a loading project and hide nav bar if desirable."
-- Scott
On Jul 13, 2009, at 4:20 AM, Timothy Falconer wrote:
Hi everyone,
We got spammed by two new forum accounts this weekend. I've removed the accounts, but it begs the question ... how did this happen?
Forum registration requires a "type the numbers in the image" check and a "click this email" authentication check before posting is allowed.
This means the accounts could both read funky image numbers *and* clicked through the link from their inbox (with a valid email address).
Either spambots have gotten smarter or these were actual humans, which we can't really protect against without requiring moderator approval of all new accounts.
Anyway, just letting you all know that I'm watching, researching, and considering the problem carefully.
Take care, Tim
-- Timothy Falconer Squeakland Foundation http://squeakland.org 610-797-3100
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