Alexander Litvinov wrote:
From the work currently going for WRT moving the whitelist and Bayes DBs into a SQL backend, I have a hunch that this will be a natural progession.Hint: I think we should store these things in a SQL database instead of in the file system, shouldn't we?
It is even possible to replace Berkeley DB with sql frontend and allow to use postgres and for those who don't want to use sql server - sqlite
possibley even design a DCC / pyzor / razor type system which would implement a distributed checksum / md5 etc on all image ?
nice idea... for now. Later spammers will start to use generated images that slitly differ
True, but hopefully that would make their lives really complicated. A spam process on a given server would need a library of images. If the proposed system was distributed, the spammer would need thousands of images to be effective.
Alternatively, they'd have to come up with a way to mangle the image slightly... in a way that would preserve the content, but destroy the hash. That should eat up a load of CPU on the spamming machine(s).
As always, it's an arms race...
--Rich
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