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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 5953 | Composr alpha bug reports | General / Uncategorised | public | 2024-09-19 02:09 | 2024-09-19 02:42 |
| Reporter | Adam Edington | Assigned To | Guest | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | ||
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 5953: Captcha before revealing emails | ||||
| Description | I saw this on Youtube, basically when revealing the email of the channel you have to click a box to say you are human. I am not sure if this is better than obfuscation but it might provide an additional layer of protection against harvesters. | ||||
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Unlikely... We already employ our own obfuscation where e-mail addresses are encoded using HTML entities (please let me know if this is broken). You don't see it unless you go into the source of the page; it appears normal when rendering the actual page. But bots will have a harder time trying to figure it out. If a harvester can figure out the entities, they will likely figure out the CAPTCHA as well (because it's probably a human paid to be a spammer), so it will not be a very fruitful solution. Perhaps this is worthy of a different, more privacy-oriented approach. Maybe we need a setting that allows members to control whether they want their e-mail address to be seen? If set to no, any instance of their e-mail address site-wide will be redacted. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2024-09-19 02:09 | Adam Edington | New Issue | |
| 2024-09-19 02:14 | PDStig | Note Added: 0009402 | |
| 2024-09-19 02:16 | PDStig | Note Edited: 0009402 | |
| 2024-09-19 02:41 | Adam Edington | Summary | Catcha before revealing emails => Captcha before revealing emails |
| 2024-09-19 02:42 | Adam Edington | Description Updated |
