Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] OMG!! Kitten authentication!!!

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

So  enough theory...  where's the module I can plug into MovableType and 
TikiWiki?

Jonathan King wrote:
> On 4/7/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > It is a fun idea, but I think the goal should be to nearly fully block
> > bots while letting in all humans.  A blocking system that lets bots get
> > through after repeated attempts might as well not exist -- it only burdens
> > the system and it ultimately fails to protect.  Using a string of eight
> > upper-case letters and digits, properly distorted, gives you a probability
> > of one in 2.8 trillion of guessing correctlly.
>
> Groovy, Mike.  But, while in a rush, I've missed a couple distorted
> challenges for even shorter passkeys, and I won't pass on stories I've
> heard from some older people I know.  This isn't an idea to protect
> your bank account, but to protect your blog from comment spam.  Given
> that aim, I think it might be a winner.  (Of course, right now the
> site is being hammered by kitten-clickers, and I'm guessing that some
> of those are robots, but there you go.)
>
> jking
>
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