New Recaptcha for vB3.8

[Max Taxable]

Originally Posted by Zachery

I had a really long written response for this thread, but I'd really just like to comment on a few things.

Less trouble than trying to answer my earlier questions I guess. I'll re-post them:

Tell me how they're going to defeat all the checks.

1.) The timers: Botnets rely on speed and high volume. Programming even a short delay means potentially a million fewer stabs a week. Delay can't really be programmed, because you have to make it long enough to defeat minimum time, short enough to pass the check for maximum time. No way to know the settings site to site.

2.) False fields - botnets are programmed to put SOMETHING here. And they do. And always will.

3.) Dots, dashes and other punctuation in email usernames - this mod has settings too. How many dots are allowed? Commas? Semicolons, underscores? There is no way to know these settings.

4.) The targeted lists - these are not honeypots. These are lists of guaranteed known bad user agent strings and hostnames. Not IP addresses.

So please. How are these genius spam purveyors going to defeat all of these checks? Specifically.

esp if they're stagnant (not evolving, not pushing forward).

You just defined recaptcha. The "new" part of it is, a checkbox. Big whoopie. The native vB checkbox was defeated long ago as are all the ones used by yahoo, hotmail, and others. This is about five years behind.

The key to stopping spam is many booby traps. Not just one "magic bullet" that doesn't exist anyway.