Re: How secure is this?
| From: | Björn Bartels | Date: | Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:30:02 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: How secure is this? | ||
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Yo, tedd...
[David Tulloh]
>Your example fails for me, Firefox and Mozilla. The rpc.php file
>doesn't seem to return anything.
[/David Tulloh]
...it does the same for me... ok, on that way a bot will never get your
mail-adr... ;)
[David Tulloh]
>To answer your question though, a bot is capable of getting anything
>that a human can, probably more. It's all a question of effort. As the
>email scrapers get plenty of hits looking for standard email addresses,
>they don't put much effort into getting addresses from people who try
>to
>hide them (people who hide them are also less likely to fall for spam).
>In the current environment, I don't think any bot is going to bother
>running javascript, so any obstuftication using javascript should be
>safe.
[/David Tulloh]
I have to agree, even the image-method isn't that save anymore nowadays
and
it is definetly not recommended by accessibility guidelines ! (see
CAPTCHA and related)...
bb
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