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Re: Has anybody come across the "honeypot" technique with respect to accessibility?

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From: Mike Barlow
Date: Aug 16, 2016 6:06AM

Thanks all for the feedback.

And @jared, great blog article there! I'll definitely keep it in mind for
the future.

*Mike Barlow*
Web Application Developer
Web Accessibility/Section 508 SME

Lancaster, Pa 17601
Office: 732.835-7557
Cell: 732.682.8226
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On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 6:08 PM, Dejan Kozina < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I've been using this for 8 years or more and, as far as I (and my
> customers) can tell, it just works great to deter spam without false
> positives, easily beats any captcha from an accessibility point of view,
> works without Javascript and is fairly easy to intenationalize.
>
> I hide the paragraph containing the label and the input field thru CSS
> aplied from an external stylesheet, mark the input field as name="url"
> or something frequently used in contact forms, the label says 'Leave
> this field empty' in the page language, and the fake fieks is cheched
> server-side: if the field is not empty I redirect the client to
> windowsupdate.com (because when I started doing this outdated Windows
> was the main cause of all evil).
>
> I'm curious to hear from the list what an appropriate response to a form
> spammer would be today:
> - ban the IP straight at the firewall?
> - respond politely with 'Die a thousand painful deaths, robot, die!'?
> - redirect to 127.0.0.1 to see if it manages to spam itself?
> - redirect to a contact form on nsa.gov?
> - respond with 'I'm a nigerian widow with couple millions to abscond'?
> - send as response a curated collection of viruses?
>
> :-)
> djn
>
>
> On 15/08/2016 19:58, Mike Barlow wrote:
> > This technique was just pointed out to me in a separate forum as a way of
> > preventing form spam:
> > http://jennamolby.com/how-to-prevent-form-spam-by-using-
> the-honeypot-technique/
> > So I was wondering if anyone on this forum has adopted this approach over
> > the more common CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell
> > Computers and Humans Apart) approach?
> > *Mike Barlow*
>
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