Should I make this open-source?

http://jaudu.net/

by Jhsto • 14 years ago

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jaudu.net

the-kenny• 14 years ago

Broken with flash-blocker. I'll never come back to a site using this.

Jhsto4• 14 years ago

Does it give out any errors? I don't see a reason why would it act so, because the site has nothing in flash.

aseidl• 14 years ago

The issue may have to do with NoScript or some other JavaScript blocker as the method appears to rely upon JS. (Tested in Lynx and Firefox with JS disabled.)

Jhsto: you might want to include a noscript tag warning visitors about this. Of course it might be better to have this done server side as anything client side will eventually get worked around.

stewie2• 14 years ago

I can't understand this method. If I want to guess someone's password, I will hack a web browser code, automatically fill-in username and password and submit. Why can this method stop it?

Jhsto4• 14 years ago

If you would make that to work and the site would not have a timelock or banning enabled, it would not be stopped.

The problem with spammers and crackers are not people like you, but rather the ones ho hammer sites using thousands of bots running behind proxies, which send raw POST data to the action url of the site's form. Even with CAPTCHA the bots are able to successfully send the POST data using OCR, which recognization rate varies from all around 10% to high as 80% depending on the CAPTCHA system used.

For this reason, even if your method would work it is lesser bad for the website owner.

Every solution has its weaknesses, but it is rather subjective which has the least of them.

pyalot2• 14 years ago

The purpose of a captcha (as flawed as the concept may be) is to filter out spam (comments etc.)

The idea behind a traditional captcha is to present a task that is easy for a human to solve (ha-ha) but hard for a computer.

As far as I can tell, your method does not rely on this principle. Which means that you use some machine-readable scheme that relies on obfuscation to provide this function.

While that method may work individually, it does stop working as soon as your method gains any kind of traction, because then spammer will target exactly your scheme and any advantage is null, void and gone.

Jhsto4• 14 years ago

I'm aware of this, but in my distinct opinion it is at least worth of trying. Spammers make money out of posting links all over the web and crackers make it by selling compromised accounts or the personal information attached to them.

Even if it would work only for a brief time it surely would make their job harder and the overall process much more slower.

But then again, this is just my opinion and I've convinced myself it to work - for that brief time only if nothing else.

Should I make this open-source?

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