Trackback Spam Resources

Not a trackback spam solution, of course, but WP Hashcash is a cute defense against comment spam by requiring a proof of work from the client.

Of course, as soon as comment spammers bake a JavaScript engine into their spambots, it’s all over, so Hashcash isn’t really breaking out of the “arms race” model of spam prevention. (But it does represent an impressively large leap in that race, so it’s likely to be quite effective for a while.)

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 16th, 2005 at 12:55 pm by Dan Sandler. It has been filed under Links, Prevention. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.