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What is the best way to programmatically detect porn images?

Akismet does an amazing job at detecting spam comments. But comments are not the only form of spam these days. What if I wanted something like akismet to automatically detect porn images on a social networking site which allows users to upload their…

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Better Honeypot Implementation (Form Anti-Spam)

How do we get rid of these spambots on our site? Every site falls victim to spambots at some point. How you handle it can effect your customers, and most solutions can discourage some people from filling out your forms. That's where the honeypot…

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Hunting cheaters in a voting competition

Currently we are running a competition which proceeds very well. Unfortunately we have all those cheaters back in business who are running scripts which automatically vote for their entries. We already saw some cheaters by looking at the database…

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Publicly Available Spam Filter Training Set

I'm new to machine learning, and for my first project I'd like to write a naive Bayes spam filter. I was wondering if there are any publicly available training sets of labeled spam/not spam emails, preferably in plain text and not a dump of a…

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How to detect fake users ( crawlers ) and cURL

Some other website use cURL and fake http referer to copy my website content. Do we have any way to detect cURL or not real web browser ?

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Detecting a (naughty or nice) URL or link in a text string

How can I detect (with regular expressions or heuristics) a web site link in a string of text such as a comment? The purpose is to prevent spam. HTML is stripped so I need to detect invitations to copy-and-paste. It should not be economical for a…

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Protect e-mail address with CSS only

I want to protect my e-mail address on webpages. But I don't know JavaScript and PHP. I know only HTML and CSS. So, please help me how to protect my email address with CSS only.

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asked Jan 29 '14 at 04:14

user3087089

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How effective is the honeypot technique against spam?

By "honeypot", I mean more or less this practice: #Register form

php spam spam-prevention honeypot

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Spam Prevention/Reduction - Contact Form?

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