Originally by: Akita T

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Originally by: Armoured C

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Originally by: Akita T

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Originally by: Manu Hermanus

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if they get through the whole make account, pay for account, a captcha to log into the forums really wont stop it....

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Let's not forget "log into the game to create a character", because without a character created first, you can't post.

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so if that is the case what you suggested is completely useless and a waste of time anyway ?
so not only are you moaning that they tried something the way you would of done it you would of still came to the same conclusion anyway. i see that no better.

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First off, they could hunt for the machines used in the creation of said characters and flag all other accounts with the same details.
And no, before you ask, I don't mean IP, I mean the other data CCP silently collects at login time.
Stuff like windows product hash ID and other such things.

Second, they could have simply word-filtered the APPROPRIATE words, in this case, ".jpg" and the SITE NAME used in that audrey whatchamacallit thingy (you know, the ACTUAL stuff they're supposed to try to keep us away from) plus ". e x e" (that's a dot in there as the first of 4 characters) if they want to do "prophylactic filetering" instead of "e x e" and "l e x e" (which both make no sense since they're part of many words in common use across this board, and what's the deal with the second one anwyay?).
They might have also pre-emptively blocked tinyurl, which they apparently didn't.

Third, I would have never used the fail-captcha they used.

And so on and so forth, as I already explained in the OP... right now, I was merely repeating and clarifying, with little extra info in this post that wasn't already in the OP.

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Originally by: Armoured C

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doesnt matter what catcha they use it a human logging in ¼_¼

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Originally by: Akita T

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lousily human readable.

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Originally by: voogru

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The person that is spamming the board is a human, and as such, can defeat all captcha systems.

This isn't an average forum spammer bot, first they need to make a trial account, obtain a PLEX for it, activate it, and then go spam the forum.

To make something that automatically makes an EVE trial account (which has its own captcha), logs into eve, buys a timecode off the market (isk needs to be sent to it...), activates it... etc etc. They are going to be spending time developing a bot for that when they can pay some dude 30 cents an hour to do it.

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Originally by: Gone'Postal

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Originally by: Akita T

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lousily human readable.

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I can read it just fine, otherwise agreed.

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Originally by: Slade Trillgon

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Is this the same issue that I just noticed with there being more then a few imposters listed as starting topics on the main forum index?

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Originally by: voogru

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I wonder when they'll make a character named after me...

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Originally by: Pater Peccavi

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Block account creation for a week, tell potential customers its due to a "security defect."

If they come back in a week, then try something else. Overkill? Maybe, but still more effective than Captcha.

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Originally by: Akita T

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I wouldn't be surprised if this is actually a "get revenge on CCP for banning all my sweatshop employees" ploy meant for CCP to over-react to, damaging itself in the process.

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Originally by: voogru

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All the more reason to chase down every SINGLE one of their accounts and ban them ruthlessly.

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Originally by: Akita T

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Originally by: voogru

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All the more reason to chase down every SINGLE one of their accounts and ban them ruthlessly.

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Still no point in having the captchas and filtering what they filtered, no ?

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Originally by: Armoured C

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doesnt matter what catcha they use it a human logging in ¼_¼

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Originally by: Gnulpie

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Edited by: Gnulpie on 23/07/2009 21:41:41
Edit: Hmpf hmpf

Really, that NEEDS to change.

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