Added reCAPTCHA to signup
December 1st, 2008 • Everything else, Progress
Hope you all had a happy Thanksgiving! And, to those of you outside of the USA, hope you had a great weekend.
I was looking at my Periscope admin panel this morning and I noticed a really weird trend: firstname same as the lastname in registrations, concatenation in the names themselves where it didn’t make sense, and the same domain name for email addresses: @inmail24.com.
So I did a little investigation to see if these were genuine registrations since there was no use of the gadget at all for any of the usernames. Turns out they are forum spam bots that somehow found their way into Periscope Gadget.
As a result, I’ve added a reCAPTCHA challenge-response on the signup page: I have to believe that this will reduce those silly critters.
