View forum leaders restricted now

[mrmarket]

It's restricted to admins and mods now. How are we supposed to keep the Entitled 7 accountable? Not to mention we can't even see a list of SBR pros. Good role models for the populace to look up to.

[stevenash]

The mods do not want to know what the community is looking at what they are doing.
Simple

[mrmarket]

The mods do not want to know what the community is looking at what they are doing.
Simple

Well that explanation isn't simple enough for me to understand.

[blackbeSSt]

can't search for members anymore either

[stevenash]

The mods do not want the community to know what they are currently viewing.

Is this clearer

[blackbeSSt]

The mods do not want the community to know what they are currently viewing. Is this clearer

doubtful. and who the fukk cares what people are viewing? was that even a feature?

[yisman]

The entitled seven continue to pull the strings behind the scenes.

[SBR Lou]

All of the members lists were removed for your own protection. It's spam bot season - in addition, some pathetic losing gamblers have stumbled upon a phishing URL and use those lists as a means of distribution.

If you ever need a mod, just click the Live Help icon. If no mod is online, it gives you a form to reach us at forum@sbrforum.com.

[blackbeSSt]

All of the members lists were removed for your own protection. It's spam bot season - in addition, some pathetic losing gamblers have stumbled upon a phishing URL and use those lists as a means of distribution. If you ever need a mod, just click the Live Help icon. If no mod is online, it gives you a form to reach us at forum@sbrforum.com.

lou, its obviously been a while since i signed up, but is there anything in place like captcha to prevent said bots? and if not, why?

[lemart5]

Lemart5 requested this if you have a problem with this talk to the the other 6 members .

[SBR Lou]

lou, its obviously been a while since i signed up, but is there anything in place like captcha to prevent said bots? and if not, why?

Yes, our captcha is a pretty good one. We do a good job against robots for the most part, but the used car salesman touts, shills and guys looking to infect member PC's are sorta like roaches. Taking those lists off their radar helps keep PM's clean.

[stevenash]

Yes, Captcha is good in stopping DDOS attacks.

Did you know if one is found guilty of a DDOS attack, one could get ten years in prison.

[blackbeSSt]

Yes, Captcha is good in stopping DDOS attacks. Did you know if one is found guilty of a DDOS attack, one could get ten years in prison.

HA! i've seen numerous websites that have been ddos attacked just from a thread posted on slickdeals!

[SBR_John]

Info is now classified. It's on a need to know basis only. (...always wanted to say that) Very few guys used those links. More potential trouble than they were worth.

[sideloaded]

It's ok we figured out that BBD got shit canned.

[chilidog]

lou, its obviously been a while since i signed up, but is there anything in place like captcha to prevent said bots? and if not, why?

Yes, our captcha is a pretty good one. We do a good job against robots for the most part, but the used car salesman touts, shills and guys looking to infect member PC's are sorta like roaches. Taking those lists off their radar helps keep PM's clean.

CAPTCHAs do absolutely nothing. They're an annoyance to humans. To bots, they're nothing. They've been cracked a long time ago. Bots decipher CAPTCHAs all day long.

[jjgold]

[excel]

CAPTCHAs do absolutely nothing. They're an annoyance to humans. To bots, they're nothing. They've been cracked a long time ago. Bots decipher CAPTCHAs all day long.

Wrong...Many of the words included in Captcha challenges come from scanned archival newspaper and old books. "Computers find it hard to recognize these words because the ink and paper have degraded over time, but by typing them in as a CAPTCHA, crowds teach computers to read the scanned text," Luis von Ahn, co-founder of reCaptcha and Will Cathcart, Google product manager, wrote in a blog post.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2352941,00.asp#fbid=8HXv-0ft7eX

[sideloaded]

Wrong...Many of the words included in Captcha challenges come from scanned archival newspaper and old books. "Computers find it hard to recognize these words because the ink and paper have degraded over time, but by typing them in as a CAPTCHA, crowds teach computers to read the scanned text," Luis von Ahn, co-founder of reCaptcha and Will Cathcart, Google product manager, wrote in a blog post.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817...id=8HXv-0ft7eX

recaptcha was broke a while ago. It was presented at a black hat conference. I know this and don't even follow the hacking scene.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/New-Google-CAPTCHAs-now-cracked-892621.html

[chilidog]

Wrong...Many of the words included in Captcha challenges come from scanned archival newspaper and old books. "Computers find it hard to recognize these words because the ink and paper have degraded over time, but by typing them in as a CAPTCHA, crowds teach computers to read the scanned text," Luis von Ahn, co-founder of reCaptcha and Will Cathcart, Google product manager, wrote in a blog post.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817...id=8HXv-0ft7eX

Perhaps you're not aware of exactly how these bots decipher CAPTCHAs. I stand behind what I said. CAPTCHAs do nothing but annoy human users. They're a false sense of security that people employ on their websites. While they may slow down script kiddies who aren't serious, they do absolutely nothing to slow down the people that buy the software that deciphers CAPTCHA all day long.

recaptcha was broke a while ago. It was presented at a black hat conference. I know this and don't even follow the hacking scene.

http://www.h-online.com/security/new...ed-892621.html

Correct. ReCaptcha was broken a couple of years ago. Even the new CAPTCHAs that display a few different pictures, and tell you to click the picture of a dog, etc., have been broken. Audio CAPTCHAs have been broken.

[excel]

Obviously you guys read too much into my post. Chili said captchas do absolutely nothing. I was stating the fact that they actually do something. They use humans to decode old newspapers and magazines without their knowledge. Captchas do something... they make us free fukin slave labor. Not sure about the security part of captcha, I'm sure you're right about it being cracked. Just found it interesting that I've likely decoded hundreds of old newspapers without knowing.