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Re: [wp-hackers] Best way to 'enhance' wp-comments-post.php

*appears*

On 5/25/06, Roy Schestowitz <r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
___/ On Thu 25 May 2006 22:34:41 BST, [ Brian Layman ] wrote : \___

> My wife's blog has blocked 40,000 spams, which I suspect is probably pretty
> low compared to most of you.  If I take out my .htaccess blocking stuff,
> that spam rate ramps up very quickly. I suspect a majority of these spams
> were poker related and given the number of WP blogs out there, that must add
> up.


Seems like the .htaccess method, which I first read about in Dvorak < http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=2904 >, is still rather successful. Once popularised, however, it can be fooled (just like my CAPTCHA which got hacked, allowing a flow of 200+ spam in the past 24 hours alone).

This kinda stuff can be really bad, because certain "security" software thinks that a good feature is NEVER sending referers to websites. I would be willing to wager that those same people think that Wordpress sucks and "is broken". Methinks the breakage exists a little closer in proximity to the user :P.
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