[Python-Dev] Summary of Tracker Issues

[Scott Dial]

Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:17 -0700, Talin wrote:
>> Here's a simple method: Put up a free porn site [...]
> 
> Is it known that someone actually implemented this?

I moderate a discussion forum which was abused with this exact attack. 
At the time, it was a phpBB forum which had the standard graphical 
captcha. After switching to a different forum package, the attacks went 
away. I will assume because (as it has been said) it was no longer a 
well-known and common interface.

However, it may also be because instead of using a graphic (which is 
easily transplanted to another page), it uses ascii art which would 
require more effort to extract and move to another page.

-Scott

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