http://voipsa.org/blog/2006/06/15/fyi-comments-are-moderated-due-to-large-amount-of-blog-comment-spam/ Collective thoughts and musings on the state of VoIP security today. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:18:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://voipsa.org/blog/2006/06/15/fyi-comments-are-moderated-due-to-large-amount-of-blog-comment-spam/#comment-495 Voice of VOIPSA » Blog Archive » Homosapien Too Tue, 04 Jul 2006 18:03:51 +0000 http://voipsa.org/blog/2006/06/15/fyi-comments-are-moderated-due-to-large-amount-of-blog-comment-spam/#comment-495 [...] I sent a message the other day on ebay, and came across a new feature: to submit a message you now have to prove you are not spammer but human (these being opposites) with a Turing test or CAPTCHA.  Ok, these things are common on web systems these days, but the new slant here was that if you could not read the graphic, you could click on a link and download an audio version to listen to instead.  This is also one of the proposed strategies for dealing with SPIT (SPAM over Internet Telephony) in our VoIP systems of the future, i.e. interact with the bona fide caller or spammer and present them with some kind of test or quiz before they get put through.  This could be as simple as “Press 8 to speak to Martyn or 0 for voicemail.” [...] [...] I sent a message the other day on ebay, and came across a new feature: to submit a message you now have to prove you are not spammer but human (these being opposites) with a Turing test or CAPTCHA.  Ok, these things are common on web systems these days, but the new slant here was that if you could not read the graphic, you could click on a link and download an audio version to listen to instead.  This is also one of the proposed strategies for dealing with SPIT (SPAM over Internet Telephony) in our VoIP systems of the future, i.e. interact with the bona fide caller or spammer and present them with some kind of test or quiz before they get put through.  This could be as simple as “Press 8 to speak to Martyn or 0 for voicemail.” [...]

]]> http://voipsa.org/blog/2006/06/15/fyi-comments-are-moderated-due-to-large-amount-of-blog-comment-spam/#comment-193 Dan York Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:02:26 +0000 http://voipsa.org/blog/2006/06/15/fyi-comments-are-moderated-due-to-large-amount-of-blog-comment-spam/#comment-193 And just to provide another data point... between last night at 10:30pm and this morning at 8:30am, 25 comments were submitted to a range of the blog postings here. Of those, exactly *1* was a real comment. The other 24 were spam. And just to provide another data point… between last night at 10:30pm and this morning at 8:30am, 25 comments were submitted to a range of the blog postings here. Of those, exactly *1* was a real comment. The other 24 were spam.

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