MenTaLguY wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Bob Jamison wrote:
>Maybe instead of text, do what some e-shopping
>sites do. Have a pass phrase displayed on an image,
>and let the person type that in. Then the pass cannot
>be harvested.
>
>
I think the text-based verifier should be sufficient: the important thing
is that it should no longer be possible to spam our wiki using
*off-the-shelf* automated tools.
Did everyone catch the hashcash story involving wiki's on Slashdot recently?
Beat Spam Using Hashcash
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/11/10/1811251&tid=111&ti...