Some dude is going to deactivate his spam protection (Akismet) for one day, on December 15th, and the idea is actually starting to spread. What a pointless idea… I mean, everyone knows how many spam they’re getting each day: Akismet as a WordPress plugin comes with a spam counter. I know I get between 100 and [...] → Read more

For the past few days, I’ve received a decent amount of spam from the same machine and domain, hosted on Hostgator. Deciding that enough was enough and that I had a minute of my life to waste, I sent an email to abuse@hostgator with some details from my Akismet screen. I wasn’t really expecting much… till [...] → Read more

A common spammer’s trick to escape mail filters is to sort-of cypher words so that they remain human-readable. You’ve received gazillions of them: vi@gr@, v-i-a-g-r-a, [v][i][a][g][r][a] and so on. A mail got through GMail’s filter this morning, and I actually spent a few minutes trying to read it because I thought this time they pushed [...] → Read more

This contact form uses a clock captcha, I thought it was a rather fun idea, and anyway a lot less annoying than those barely readable random strings so many sites use. Source code for this clock captcha can be found here (in German, but the PHP code is clean and easily understandable:) Share This Related posts Spam statistics [...] → Read more

Every time I check my referrers, I cannot help but notice all those utterly futile referrer spams from various order-your-pills-online sites. And each time I start thinking about various method to block them all (then I never implement these methods because I mostly don’t care about refer spam :) I checked a couple hundreds of referrer [...] → Read more

A few days ago, Project Honey Pot introduced a new service : http:BL, a blacklist of all the suspicious IPs they are gathering through all the honey pots, and an API allowing anyone to use this blacklist. Their API is very easy to use, and I believe a number of projects (hint) should use it any [...] → Read more

Yoopla, I’m back online. Or almost back online, since real life issues are eating most of my free time : I’ll be moving by the end of the month, gotta find a house, a babysitter and a school for kids, those things. In other news : I have two invites for Vox, SixApart’s latest buzz machine, if [...] → Read more

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