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Bug 31635 - Captcha can be bypassed or automaticly dissolved
Captcha can be bypassed or automaticly dissolved
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
ConfirmEdit (CAPTCHA extension) (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest critical (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Depends on:
Blocks:
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Reported: 2011-10-12 01:48 UTC by Franz Gstättner
Modified: 2012-02-05 18:07 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---


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Description Franz Gstättner 2011-10-12 01:48:45 UTC
I had new users and spam articles and URLs from 
* Ubiquity Server Solutions / ubiquityservers.com 
* Nobis Technology Group / nobistech.net
It was from the followig ranges:
* 108.62.0.0/16
* 64.120.0.0/17
* 173.234.0.0/16
* 173.208.32.0/19
I have found spam-seen-entrys about this company from a longer time. I don't know: is this a godd provider or a self spammer or works with spammers.

In Homowiki.de it was the articles:
http://www.homowiki.de/index.php?title=Spezial:Logbuch&dir=prev&offset=20100817134228&limit=20&type=delete&hide_patrol_log=1&month=&year=

"How to Gain Weight" to "How to get rid of stretch marks"

The Users
http://www.homowiki.de/index.php?title=Spezial:Logbuch&dir=prev&offset=20111010042411&type=block&month=&year=

JMcFadden96 to "Ularedmond"

It is not only in my Wiki, it is also in kathpedia.de. I have no Adminrights there, but i can see the spam and communication about the spam

http://www.kathpedia.com/index.php?title=Benutzer_Diskussion:Gandalf

The deleted artices or moved on user-diskussion-pages with english names and the Usernames with 2 Letters.
http://www.kathpedia.com/index.php?title=Spezial:Logbuch
Comment 1 Brion Vibber 2011-10-12 16:07:28 UTC
Do you know they're being bypassed, or are they merely being solved? (Lots of spammers use poorly-paid humans to do this.)
Comment 2 Mark A. Hershberger 2011-12-01 14:53:10 UTC
Lowering priority until we can get confirmation that the captcha is being subverted somehow.
Comment 3 Franz Gstättner 2012-02-05 18:07:29 UTC
"(Lots of spammers use poorly-paid humans to do this.)"

Oh, i had no idea! Then, it could be other. I can not made contact to the server admin for protocols to veryfying it.

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