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... but Russian spammers have managed to make their way into that list.

I just discovered that the Rolls Ethereal have been vandalized -- utterly, meticulously and very intentionally destroyed -- by a spammer. Special. Not going to be simple to recover, either, since the bad data is interleaved with the good in the logs. In theory, I can fix this; in practice, it hasn't been done before, and some of the tools I need don't exist yet (I added the logging facility a long time ago, but not the tool to recover from the logs), so a bunch of time that was going to be spent on wiki-tech instead has to be spent on the Rolls. What fun.

Anybody know a good captcha package for Perl that I can drop in here?

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Date: 2006-06-01 01:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cvirtue.livejournal.com
Man, that sucks. Condolences.

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Date: 2006-06-01 02:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] patsmor.livejournal.com
Yes, sucks substantially. I'm just sorry I can't be of any use in restoring it.

stupid other login

Date: 2006-06-01 01:40 pm (UTC)
tpau: (Default)
From: [personal profile] tpau
what did they do to them? andis it in russian?

Re: stupid other login

Date: 2006-06-01 04:50 pm (UTC)
tpau: (Default)
From: [personal profile] tpau
what IS wikispam?

Re: stupid other login

Date: 2006-06-01 07:11 pm (UTC)
tpau: (Default)
From: [personal profile] tpau
they may be putting real names and adressesintowhat htey htik is a searchable db,, thus spreadignthemj aroudnteh net? no idea. they might also just be bored 13 year olds in russia with little better to do.

remember currently russia has no enforsible laws, noone enforcing anythign and almost no acountability. whee

Re: stupid other login

Date: 2006-06-01 07:46 pm (UTC)
tpau: (Default)
From: [personal profile] tpau
it can be a name, Ukranian in origin judging by the 'ko' ending...

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Date: 2006-06-01 02:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herooftheage.livejournal.com
I take it restoring a backup from a date before but as close to the vandalism as possible is not a viable option?

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Date: 2006-06-01 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] learnedax.livejournal.com
There are a couple of captcha packages on CPAN, but I have no experience using any of them. CGI::Application::Plugin::CAPTCHA looks promising.

Are the source IPs of the changes filterable in some way? All associated with domains in *.ru where nothing else is, or the like? That'd speed things up considerably...

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Date: 2006-06-01 07:15 pm (UTC)
laurion: (Default)
From: [personal profile] laurion
Not readily available for perl, but you want to drop in http://www.kittenauth.com/

*grin*

Accessibility

Date: 2006-06-02 01:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] metageek.livejournal.com
I suspect you'd need to have an alternative approach for accessibilty; maybe something like an A:B :: C : ? test.

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