RE: [Springframework-developer] forums registration now requires entering a confirmation code [heur]

[Nick L. <nl...@es...>]

> Now that I'm back from my trip I was able to spend a bit of 
> time and add 
> a mod to the phpBB install so that registering as a new user on the 
> forums requires people to copy a confirmation code that is randomly 
> generated as an image on each attempt. Unfortuantely this 
> will make it 
> harder for disabled users (with screen readers and the like) 
> to register 
> on the system, but as we have some sort of porn spam bot creating new 
> users (with porn urls in their profile), there was no real 
> alternative...
> 

The screen reader software manufactures could always add support for CAPTCHA
breakers like http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mori/gimpy/gimpy.html.
(Unfortuntaly I think it is more likely the bot makes will do it first,
though)