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Re:My sign up form was abused to send spam. Is yours safe? by cssanchez on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @10:10PM (#35269660)
Wow. It’s unfortunate that so many programmers dedicate their time to breaking systems like this all for spam. It’s pathetic the lengths we have to go to protect even the most basic parts of systems like sign up forms.
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Re:My sign up form was abused to send spam. Is yours safe? by drdaeman on Thursday March 23, 2023 @01:04AM (#35270725)
AFAIK, it's not humans, it's robots. Crawling webpages, looking out for forms, poking for typical vulnerabilities.
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Re:My sign up form was abused to send spam. Is yours safe? by paxys on Thursday March 23, 2023 @01:25AM (#35270809)
Unless there are self-aware robots out there crawling the internet and causing mayhem on their own, someone still had to build and deploy them.
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Re:My sign up form was abused to send spam. Is yours safe? by 79a6ed87 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @01:14AM (#35270763)
I understand the "this is why we can't have nice things" sentiment.

On the other hand, it's a fascinating topic on a technical level and I wouldn't compare it to other system exploits that you may witness in real life of people taking advantage.

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Re:My sign up form was abused to send spam. Is yours safe? by moreresearchplz on Thursday March 23, 2023 @02:58AM (#35271325)
Not much different from the advertising industry itself, which always tries to find new ways to exploit human psychology.
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Re:My sign up form was abused to send spam. Is yours safe? by DeathArrow on Thursday March 23, 2023 @05:38AM (#35272207)
I don't get why. Probably there are more efficient ways to send spam.
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Re:My sign up form was abused to send spam. Is yours safe? by Gigachad on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:34AM (#35273727)
This lets you send from an established domain that google trusts.
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Re:My sign up form was abused to send spam. Is yours safe? by GoblinSlayer on Thursday March 23, 2023 @08:53AM (#35273960)
They just test correctness of your code for free. Now you don't have to hire testers.
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