[JDEV] Filling public server's disk?

PuD thepud at chartermi.net
Thu Jan 8 21:28:41 CST 2004


PuD wrote:

>
>> 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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this didnt format too well. not a old mailling list hand quite yet. just 
do a google. :-p




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