Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] gnuradio.org spam activity and user accounts

[Vanush Vaswani]

Maybe consider using the 'no CAPTCHA' recaptcha?

Vanush

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Tom Rondeau <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I wanted to let everyone know that gnuradio.org has been hit with a serious
> amount of spam activity today. We restrict much of the editing to signed-in
> users and use a recaptcha plugin to prevent bots from creating bogus
> accounts, which is something we dealt with a while ago. They are now getting
> around the recaptcha, creating bogus users, and posting Issue and editing
> the wiki page of our site.
>
> Johnathan Corgan and I have removed the bogus issues, fixed the main wiki,
> and locked all of the accounts under suspicion. We have also disabled
> automatic authentication of users, and so new users must now be manually
> activated. I will be monitoring this activity for the next few days and hope
> it dies down. In the meantime, if you make an account that I don't activate
> (within a reasonable amount of time), ping me on the side about it.
>
> Meanwhile, I don't think there was any other damage done to the site besides
> the front page that has already been fixed. But if you are looking around at
> pages and it seems like spam (and it's pretty obvious -- talks about phone
> numbers to call for tech support about various products), please report it
> to us.
>
> It looks like this kind of thing has been happening for a while on other
> sites. It just managed to hit us today.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
>
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