Block spam DDoS attacks from botnet

Feb 26, 2011 11:32


Title
Block spam DDoS attacks from botnet

Short, concise description of the idea
Conditional show captcha for users

Full description of the idea
Chaos situation repeats in http://navalny.livejournal.com/558228.html?page=378#comments for some several posts of Navalny. Spam bots filled limit of 10000 comments in this sample.

Always all bots has same properties:
a) 0-1-2..5 days after account registration.
b) void journal
c) attack only popular LJ

Just add conditions for showing strong captcha to accounts with this props (primary - a).
An ordered list of benefits
  • Help to prevent spam DDoS for populal LJ.
An ordered list of problems/issues involved
  • Many newbies in LJ will see captcha shown by this conditions. For them may implements countdown of passing human-tests about 3-5 comments.

captchas, § no status, spam

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