[Labs-l] Spam issues on labs sites

Thu Jun 21 12:18:12 UTC 2012

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Ryan Lane <rlane at wikimedia.org> wrote:

>
> On the tesla cluster we used recaptcha. I'm pretty sure our policies
> actually forbid using any outside captchas, though.
>

well i did that as well before Asirra but then...
https://www.google.com/search?q=recaptcha+cracked

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/01/11/1411254/google-recaptcha-cracked

that kind of made me switch away from recaptcha (which seemed like such an
_awesome_ idea when starting with it,
still i think it would be most cool if our captchas would actually help us
with our work (like convert scanned books from
wikisources into plain text).

>
> We should work on getting the IRC stuff working. The thing that's
> lacking right now is that the script they need is in the private repo,
> because it's littered with passwords.
>
>
yay for that

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Daniel Zahn <dzahn at wikimedia.org <mark at wikimedia.org>>
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