Comments on: Dear Spambot http://www.thinkartificial.org/featured/dear-spambot/ Exploring the hi-tech artificial, virtual things we design Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:54:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Elijah http://www.thinkartificial.org/featured/dear-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-8370 Elijah Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:54:16 +0000 http://www.thinkartificial.org/humor/dear-spambot/#comment-8370 Yeah this was a good one. You are right they have already started the decoding of captchas, its sad these bots exist. Yeah this was a good one. You are right they have already started the decoding of captchas, its sad these bots exist.

]]> By: Organic Marketing - SEM » Understanding Your Web Analytics – Bad ROBOTs - Anne Haynes http://www.thinkartificial.org/featured/dear-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-8362 Organic Marketing - SEM » Understanding Your Web Analytics – Bad ROBOTs - Anne Haynes Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:03:17 +0000 http://www.thinkartificial.org/humor/dear-spambot/#comment-8362 [...] If you continue to have problems, just write a letter to the spambots. Think Artificially.org wrote a funny blog post that’s a good read. [...] [...] If you continue to have problems, just write a letter to the spambots. Think Artificially.org wrote a funny blog post that’s a good read. [...]

]]> By: Anne Haynes http://www.thinkartificial.org/featured/dear-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-7640 Anne Haynes Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:01:57 +0000 http://www.thinkartificial.org/humor/dear-spambot/#comment-7640 Great read - I'm writing a blog post about this same topic and ran across your letter to the bots. - Love it! Great read – I’m writing a blog post about this same topic and ran across your letter to the bots. – Love it!

]]> By: Hrafn http://www.thinkartificial.org/featured/dear-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-6436 Hrafn Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:18:09 +0000 http://www.thinkartificial.org/humor/dear-spambot/#comment-6436 That's a great find and funny. Thanks for sharing! I had a look at your gallery, great work. What app do you use to create them? That’s a great find and funny. Thanks for sharing!

I had a look at your gallery, great work. What app do you use to create them?

]]> By: robotriot http://www.thinkartificial.org/featured/dear-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-6302 robotriot Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:39:12 +0000 http://www.thinkartificial.org/humor/dear-spambot/#comment-6302 I've seen a couple of more creative ways to prevent spamming in comments, like asking a question every human being should know, or this labyrinth game: http://www.zoggles.co.uk/asp/news.asp?news=10&comments=yes I’ve seen a couple of more creative ways to prevent spamming in comments, like asking a question every human being should know, or this labyrinth game: http://www.zoggles.co.uk/asp/news.asp?news=10&comments=yes

]]> By: Hrafn http://www.thinkartificial.org/featured/dear-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-6275 Hrafn Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:15:20 +0000 http://www.thinkartificial.org/humor/dear-spambot/#comment-6275 Hey Marcelo, Well, they're already deciphering some of the CAPTCHAs. I also saw a recent article which explained a pretty clever method spammers are using: The spambots grab the CAPTCHAs and display them instantly across the web in ads that promise human users free porn if they type in what the CAPTCHAs say. The humans, being the frail emotional beings that they are, type in the correct phrase and voila - the spambots have their passcode. Anyway, in the case that spambots get increasingly intelligent - I can only hope that the shape of the web will be so drastically different that we'll have different and efficient means of countering them. Hey Marcelo,
Well, they’re already deciphering some of the CAPTCHAs. I also saw a recent article which explained a pretty clever method spammers are using:

The spambots grab the CAPTCHAs and display them instantly across the web in ads that promise human users free porn if they type in what the CAPTCHAs say. The humans, being the frail emotional beings that they are, type in the correct phrase and voila – the spambots have their passcode.

Anyway, in the case that spambots get increasingly intelligent – I can only hope that the shape of the web will be so drastically different that we’ll have different and efficient means of countering them.

]]> By: Marcelo http://www.thinkartificial.org/featured/dear-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-6065 Marcelo Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:00:08 +0000 http://www.thinkartificial.org/humor/dear-spambot/#comment-6065 Hallo, Hrafn! CAPTCHAS!! I wonder about the future when those spambots/spammers will get clever/intelligent enough to "understand"/"decipher"/"decode" the captchas and put all those trash comments on the blogs! Then, captchas will be useless... :( :) Até! Marcelo Hallo, Hrafn!

CAPTCHAS!!

I wonder about the future when those spambots/spammers will get clever/intelligent enough to “understand”/”decipher”/”decode” the captchas and put all those trash comments on the blogs! Then, captchas will be useless… :(

:)

Até!

Marcelo

]]> By: Hrafn http://www.thinkartificial.org/featured/dear-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-5840 Hrafn Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:39:02 +0000 http://www.thinkartificial.org/humor/dear-spambot/#comment-5840 Thanks Nils :) Thanks Nils :)

]]> By: Nils http://www.thinkartificial.org/featured/dear-spambot/comment-page-1/#comment-5832 Nils Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:54:27 +0000 http://www.thinkartificial.org/humor/dear-spambot/#comment-5832 This is brilliant. I'll have to digg or redd it. Unless of course, "they" beat me to it. This is brilliant. I’ll have to digg or redd it. Unless of course, “they” beat me to it.

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