{"id":1014,"date":"2010-07-02T11:15:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T01:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2010-07-02T11:15:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T01:15:23","slug":"chewbacca-to-protect-against-scamspam-portal-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2010\/07\/chewbacca-to-protect-against-scamspam-portal-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Chewbacca to Protect Against Scam\/Spam Portal Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Conroy&#8217;s recent <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2010\/06\/theres-a-staggering-number-of-australians-being-in-having-their-computers-infected-at-the-moment\/\">&#8221;spams and scams coming through the portal&#8221;<\/a> gaffe has created quite some traction for the campaign against his idiotic plans for the internet.  I was about to post a comment on a news article this morning, and discovered that <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/\">The Age<\/a> newspaper has come up with a clever plan to protect at least themselves from scams and spams, traversing the portal:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the Captcha for the comment system.  &#8220;Wookes&#8221;?  Or is that &#8220;Wookiees&#8221;?  Perhaps <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chewbacca\">Chewbacca<\/a> is the way to prevent scams and spams?  Maybe he just howls at them as they come through the portal, protecting us from their evil scam\/spam portal plans?<\/p>\n<p>No? I find your lack of faith disturbing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Conroy&#8217;s recent &#8221;spams and scams coming through the portal&#8221; gaffe has created quite some traction for the campaign against his idiotic plans for the internet. I was about to post a comment on a news article this morning, and discovered that The Age newspaper has come up with a clever plan to protect at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[384,404],"class_list":["post-1014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-nocleanfeed","tag-openinternet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}