[JDEV] Filling public server's disk?

PuD thepud at chartermi.net
Thu Jan 8 21:11:18 CST 2004


>But even with e-mail confirmation it would be easy to write a bot that
>handles the confirmation. I think this style of confirmation is more for
>verifying e-mail addresses and that they want to use the (mailing list)
>service than for server protection. The schemes where you have to read
>the letters on an image and input them, you will make it impossible for
>some users (e.g. users without a graphical environment) to register
>accounts and as I read in a German computer magazin (c't) some time ago
>it is also no problem to automate the reading of these images even if
>they are printed on colored backgrounds or not "clean printed".
>
>
>Tot kijk
>    Matthias
>
>  
>
what about figlet? could this be a solution? if you arent familiar, 
figlet is a little script that takes text and makes things

 _ _ _          _   _     _     
| (_) | _____  | |_| |__ (_)___ 
| | | |/ / _ \ | __| '_ \| / __|
| | |   <  __/ | |_| | | | \__ \
|_|_|_|\_\___|  \__|_| |_|_|___/                                  
  
                           _/      _/        _/            
    _/_/    _/  _/_/      _/_/_/_/  _/_/_/          _/_/_/   
 _/    _/  _/_/            _/      _/    _/  _/  _/_/        
_/    _/  _/              _/      _/    _/  _/      _/_/     
 _/_/    _/                _/_/  _/    _/  _/  _/_/_/        

 
write a script to display random letters in a random format, using text, 
on a registration page? just a thought, and hello! (new to the list)




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