Otherwise, excellent idea!

Yet, a problem I have with CAPTCHAS in general, is there burden to users of websites. So I’m interested is ways of increasing security, without burdening people with task such as filling in a CAPTCHA form.

On such technique is a simple client honeypot (a spammer trap) that creates a CAPTCHA, or other form field, that is invisible to the website user. The spam bot, howevers, “sees ” and tries to fill in the honeypot field. If the invisible field is filed in, then, the website knows that its a spammer or other bot hacker.

Thanks, that’s a nice article indeed. (I had no clue where the word spam comes from!) Well, I guess I’d just take all sites that are advertised in spam mails off the name servers, until they’ve proven it was a mistake. End of problem. There’s a slight chance one or the other site might temporarily be unavailable accidentally, but this seems to me like a price I’d be willing to pay. Just the mere existence of such a procedure would make a big difference.

Best,

B.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/08/06/070806fa_fact_specter

for an interesting take on the issue.