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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: spambots</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/spambots.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2007-01-23T13:39:15+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>Stopping spambots with hashes and honeypots</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jan/23/spambots/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-01-23T13:39:15+00:00</published><updated>2007-01-23T13:39:15+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Jan/23/spambots/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nedbatchelder.com/text/stopbots.html"&gt;Stopping spambots with hashes and honeypots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Ned’s analysis of how spambots work, along with some relatively simple tricks that should fool most of them.


    &lt;p&gt;Tags: &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/commentspam"&gt;commentspam&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/hashing"&gt;hashing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ned-batchelder"&gt;ned-batchelder&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/spam"&gt;spam&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/spambots"&gt;spambots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;



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