Bot creating issues

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 05:34:53PM +0000, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Friday, 25 November 2016 at 17:27:07 UTC, Dominikus Dittes Scherkl wrote:
> > Hm.
> > 
> > There seem to be some bot generating a lot of new Issues in the D
> > bugzilla. Or is that intentional?!?
> 
> It started 3 days ago, but becomming increasingly frequent - at the
> moment every twenty minutes a new one appears!

I just went and closed a bunch of them that I could find.  They all
appear to come from the same account, so perhaps a temporary stop-gap is
to disable the account in question?

Though, I suspect it's not so simple, as it's probably a spam bot that's
signing up new accounts to post spam every so often.

I wonder if the solution might be as simple as slightly massaging the
signup page so that it's not as recognizable to the spambot as the
standard bugzilla signup page.  This should at least defeat the dumbest
of the spambots. Though I suspect nowadays smarter spambots are readily
available to spammers that can easily bypass such measures.  But unless
we're being targeted specifically, simple measures ought to be able to
stem the tide of spam.

It's a whole 'nother can o' worms if we're being targeted specifically,
though.


T

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