Stupid Spammies
I have not posted for a while about the work I am doing to block spam for blogs but this was for two reasons.
#1) - when I started taunting them a couple months ago, I got a sudden influx of new spammers and new techniques.
Just how stupid can you be to expose yourself to someone who is actively trying to figure out how you work!!!
#2) - I am working on some techniques to detect and to trap incoming spamming systems while allowing legitimate comments to come through without requiring any kind of visual ID or preregistration.
I am still working on this but I have seen a few shifts in the attempts that are interesting.
I am getting a lot of attempts from Europe. Before the majority were from zombie systems in major US ISP netblocks (Comcast, Road Runner, AOL, etc...); now I am getting a lot from Poland, Switzerland, and Austria. Russia, Africa and China were such
fountains of joy that those entire nations were blocked a long long time ago.
Also, I am getting a lot of similar attempts from different IP addresses. There is a marked coordination going on here but these people are failing. Failing miserably.
Tonight, I had 44 attempts at comment spam, 43 of them were an identical attempt (with different wording but the technique was the same). There were 39 unique IP addresses.
None of them got in. Suckaahhhhssssss...
Posted by DaveH at December 8, 2006 7:48 PM