What happened today?

tinnie · 16 Nov 2012, 15:19

So many spam

dirge · 16 Nov 2012, 15:21

It's great now we can get our keyboards cock pills and get a great body in one month. All on one site!

webwit · 16 Nov 2012, 18:11

I think a spam bot finally hacked our most secure of security questions, and we need another riddle to replace the "IBM" one.

fossala · 16 Nov 2012, 18:40

Are you sure, not hacked the server? Strange post by T!NG that where just removed.

webwit · 16 Nov 2012, 18:52

No hack, step one is remove the spammer + his topic, that left T!NG's post who replied to the spammer, after which the topic was removed. So if you can, don't reply to spammers, it just means more work for the mods to clean things up.

7bit · 16 Nov 2012, 18:57

webwit wrote:No hack, step one is remove the spammer + his topic, that left T!NG's post who replied to the spammer, after which the topic was removed. So if you can, don't reply to spammers, it just means more work for the mods to clean things up.

OK, sorry.

dirge · 16 Nov 2012, 18:59

Sorry won't reply, was just having some fun with them.

new question?

Which is a type of keyboard? TKL, KFC, MSG?

Mrinterface · 16 Nov 2012, 19:06

dirge wrote:Sorry won't reply, was just having some fun with them.

new question?

Which is a type of keyboard? TKL, KFC, MSG?

They will try all 3 and get in

7bit · 16 Nov 2012, 19:51

Maybe it should be a more complicated question, like:
What is the order-code for a purple 7 units spherical space bar in never ending round 4?

Soarer · 16 Nov 2012, 19:54

7bit wrote:What is the order-code for a purple 7 units spherical space bar in never ending round 4?

CIALIS?

Mrinterface · 16 Nov 2012, 19:55

7bit wrote:Maybe it should be a more complicated question, like:
What is the order-code for a purple 7 units spherical space bar in never ending round 4?

That way nobody would be able to enter.....

Daemon Raccoon · 16 Nov 2012, 20:20

Yay! Spam; delicious canned meat-like product!

The_Ed · 16 Nov 2012, 22:20

I guess I missed all the fun...

EDIT: Sooo... What happened to GH then? I have PMs I need to respond to there.

TDub · 16 Nov 2012, 22:58

So it's not just me, GH really is down.

Daemon Raccoon · 16 Nov 2012, 23:05

Word on the GH IRC channel is that the firewall is not letting people through.

JBert · 16 Nov 2012, 23:21

At least no hackers get in!

7bit · 16 Nov 2012, 23:23

UKPharma wrote:Pain meds without a prescription online. ...

Who needs medicines that cause pain?

The_Ed · 16 Nov 2012, 23:23

I've never once gone on the GH or DT IRC channels. GH has been down for many hours, how could they not have opened up the firewall in that amount of time? They're probably afraid of opening it up too much and letting R00TW0RM in again... That, or they found out how to prevent R00TW0RM from ever hacking them again - by blocking everybody! Yay!

Mrinterface · 17 Nov 2012, 00:41

Antispam question :

Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. So, waht cerhry mx is cilkcy? Flil in the Asnewr : Belu!

The_Ed · 17 Nov 2012, 03:34

Mrinterface has got it nailed! That's brilliant!

dirge · 17 Nov 2012, 08:17

Aewosme! We souhld awlyas psot lkie tihs!

kbdfr · 17 Nov 2012, 08:28

Mrinterface wrote:Antispam question :

Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. So, waht cerhry mx is cilkcy? Flil in the Asnewr : Belu!

It msut hvae been a rael pian to wirte tihs txet

But seriously, I'm afraid understanding the text won't be very easy for people whose mother tongue is not written with Latin characters, and even more difficult if it doesn't use letters at all.
And I think a lot of people will in fact write the answer as it is given here: Belu

Besides, I guess quite a lot of people just won't know the correct answer nor even guess a colour is meant.

Wouldn't it be possible to implement a solution where one has to enter characters shown as a (always different) graphic?

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tinnie · 17 Nov 2012, 15:52

Great! no spam today

dirge · 17 Nov 2012, 17:42

my forum uses those verification steps and they sail straight past them.

RC-1140 · 17 Nov 2012, 17:57

Yup, bots are getting better and better at reading captchas, especially at reading captchas which are used by many websites.

webwit · 17 Nov 2012, 18:05

Yeah, reCaptcha is what we used before the security question, it wasn't good enough. I briefly re-used it yesterday, but that didn't stop it either. I think I now got it by simply renaming the security question input field, in order to beat the automatic form submissions aimed at phpbb software.