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Fighting Spam on Typo with Logic

I realized that spam bots are stupid, and spammers are generally not the best programmers, so a while back I made a system to fight the intolerable spam plaguing us. I noted today that Robby on Rails was having this same problem, and I figured I might as well share what has worked for me. First, I added this line to my views/articles/_comment_box.rhtml: # <td><p><label for="comment_body">Your message</label></p></td> # <td valign="top" colspan="2"> # <%= text_area "comment", "body" %> # </td> # [...]

PhishTank pwns Phishing Phools

PhishTank is an awesome website that keeps a database of phishing websites that are user submitted and verified. It integrates with OpenDNS, so when a site is verified by the community as a phishing site, OpenDNS users will see a phishing warning instead of the original website. There are also other perks like spelling correction and faster DNS resolves, but the phishing this is revolutionary. I joined PhishTank today, and I’m currently in second place on number of phishing sites [...]