chuckhoffmann Wrote:
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> Stop the drugs Wrote:
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> > Wow. Even after he changed up the particulars,
> > these morons still manage to find a work
> around.
> >
> > I yearn for the days when you knew who in the
> > neighborhood was selling dope and you could,
> er,
> > lean on them a bit..
>
> The only thing that Cary changed was he replaced
> the text captcha with an ASCII-art one, which only
> appears if you're posting anonymously or when
> you're registering yet another new account.
>
> The ASCII-art captcha is laughably weak and easily
> defeated; I literally wrote
href="https://gist.github.com/chuckhoffmann/750791
> 5174e7ddebec15483d0f0dd572#file-ffxu_ascii_art_cap
> tcha_solver-user-js">code to do it in an
> afternoon, meaning that an experienced
> professional spammer probably could have done it
> in 15 to 30 minutes.
>
> Beyond that, the captcha's only good for blocking
> unregistered accounts. Once an account is
> registered, it's full speed ahead for someone
> wanting to spam the almighty shit out of Fairfax
> Underground.
>
> Fairfax Underground is a perfect target for
> spammers, because it's weakly defended and
> infrequently moderated.
Shirley there is a volunteer out there willing to moderate....