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Written by Thom McGrath on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 8:36 AM (-05:00)
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Our new comment system seems to be working well. There's another improvement I plan to make, in order to make it totally invincible, but I have not found a plugin for MT that can do what I need, so I may need to write my own plugin.
I can't share the details of my security, as obscurity is part of the security. I also use powerful encryption methods, time-sensitivity, and a couple other things. Combining all these together create a truly powerful comment spam solution.
I've also designed this to be UTF-8 compatible since there are, in fact, more languages than English out there.
So test this system. Try it out. I'm not saying it's perfect yet, so this is kind of a beta test.
Update: Let me also make something clear. This will not stop manual spam - the kind of comment spam where a person simply types stuff into a web browser and presses submit. There is no way to stop that, because it's the same as a true commenter. This method will stop automated spam, which is the kind of spam which plagues blogs all over.
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Quoting the prophet, Anonymous:
Cool blog!
No international stuff available except the real pound sign (£) and the Euro symbol (€)
[ April 18 2007 | E-Mail ]
Steve Garman wrote:
Once more from Firefox (the last was from IE) and with my name.
No international stuff available except the real pound sign (£) and the Euro symbol (€)
[ April 18 2007 | E-Mail ]
Anonymous muttered:
My Perfect Comment, from Camino... Let's see if your anti-spam works!
[ April 18 2007 | E-Mail ]
Thom "Tekcor" McGrath wrote:
Thank you, it appears to be working well with international text. Let's see if we can get some german or something on here for the real test.
So far, I'm assuming no problems with false positives?
Steve Garman wrote:
To be or not to be, that is the question.
Быть или не быть, то будет вопросом.
Être ou ne pas être, c'est la question.
[ April 18 2007 | E-Mail ]
Taking a break from wasting time, Steve Garman came by to say:
Russian & French look OK
[ April 18 2007 | E-Mail ]
Anonymous muttered:
Some umlauts from Germany: äöü ÄÖÜ ß - that's all we have which is not ASCI 0-127
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Quoting the prophet, Thom "Tekcor" McGrath:
Thank you everybody, testing seems to have gone well. Only time will bring the true answer. I'm creating a few more tricks to further obfuscate the code, but I think all-in-all, this solution will make sure I don't have to tend to the comments night and day.
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