[IMC-Tech] Captcha implementation: which way to choose?

[Mike Tonks]

What are the best candidates for a bayesian module that can run fairly
easily on an indymedia server?

Currently I'm looking at SpamAssassin which also has URI blacklists
and bad keywords etc built in, but it seems to be overkill (very email
oriented) and not that easy to pull out the relevant bits for web form
protection.  I have to admit I don't really understand how bayes works
so I probably need something that's wrapped in a 'ready to go'
package, if possible.

Perhaps Indymedia could run a central web service similar to akismet
for the regional sites to use, that would be safe & secure from any
logging?

mike

On 13 August 2010 09:21, ekes <ekes at aktivix.org> wrote:
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> On 13/08/10 02:52, Ringo wrote:
>> IIRC Akismet and many other
>> systems get IPs through a PHP command which can't be fixed with a simple
>> change to the config file and/or have the form send things directly to
>> the anti-spam service.
>
> Generally I'd say every single Indymedia really must be running
> mod_removeip (http://riseuplabs.org/privacy/apache/
> http://packages.debian.org/en/lenny/libapache2-mod-removeip). At this
> point all PHP or anything else knows is localhost.
>
> However, lots of these services actually use a bit of javascript to
> by-pass all of this, or embed images from their server. I guess without
> the IP address all you will be getting is something like a baysian stat
> analysis of the content.  That and your probably sending the content off
> to a single point (via an encrypted connection?) real time in direct
> relation to incoming connection.
>
> ekes
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