[IRCServices] nick registration without email

[Robin Burchell]

Indeed, it's easily bypassable- thing is, you need:

  - A person with a clue.
  - A person who gives a damn about *your* network enough to bother.

In kiddiot land, the first seems to be in short enough supply :-).

On 1/22/06, Anton Wolkov <phan70m at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've seen networks who use auth code as a captcha method, they print it back
> to the user hoping it won't be caught by an evil script and only a real
> person would know what to do with it.
> it's not a good idea, because a simple regexp can catch this.
> i am using libgd and a php cron to email the auth code inside an image
> attached to the letter.
> this also eliminates the need for me to check whether the @host.com points
> to the same address as the host of the client, because i simply don't care,
> no bot in hell will be able to just understand the auth code.
>
>
> On 1/21/06, Robin Burchell <surreal.w00t at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can kind of see the logic, as then you'd need to customise <insert
> > botnet here> for that network, but it's not something I'd do.
> >
> > On 1/21/06, Torbjörn Svensson <azoff at se.linux.org > wrote:
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> > > Umar Draz wrote:
> > > > I mean if someone want to register a nick just send the AUTH CODE
> > > > on screen not through email.
> > >
> > > If you want it to not send the auth-code by mail, why send the auth-code
> > > at all? I don't see any reason to send the auth-code to the user by
> notice.
> > >
> > >
> > > - --
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