What's your security stragedy?

**Caddyman** · 09-08-2008, 03:55 AM

What's your security stragedy? what do you have in place to thwart spammers and bot's, etc....

what do you use?

**Cerberus** · 09-08-2008, 06:40 AM

I always do a couple things.

I have the recaptcha for spammers and bots. It has done well so far.

Also I have changed name of panel folders and then htaccess passed them to secure them. We change the server passes and stuff every couple weeks and all passwords are generated...So no one knows them...I keep everything around my neck on usb...Without it I would be screwed LOL

**Caddyman** · 09-08-2008, 07:05 AM

good lord that is a lot of security, good for you. one day i will do all the htaccess and renaming folders. i was talking more for protecting against spammer bots, not hackers, but that is good to know Blake

**Soliloquy** · 09-08-2008, 10:04 AM

good strategy Blake, we should all learn from your example

**Greek76** · 09-08-2008, 01:12 PM

Ive had a real simple method of keeping out the spammers by just adding a security question. A simple question like what color is the blue sky... In the past two years I rarely had any spammers. Now I even use the recaptcha aswell..

**Caddyman** · 09-08-2008, 01:15 PM

yeah i think the human verification question is genius, unless it is too hard of a question....lol, you'd be surprised what people can get stumped on...

**Soliloquy** · 09-08-2008, 01:17 PM

but that can be a good thing too, it would keep the stupid people out

**Caddyman** · 09-08-2008, 01:18 PM

lol, the stupid people are the funniest! no but really i have seen some crazy questions, i can't remember which forum it was, it was about web coding, the question was ridiculous, i couldn't get it....guess i was the stupid people there

**Soliloquy** · 09-08-2008, 01:23 PM

they may be the funniest, especially when they're really wacko, but they can also mean the most work!

**Caddyman** · 09-08-2008, 01:25 PM

tell me about it....

so we got Blakes super duper server and folder security, we got human verification and captcha for bots, what else is there?

**Michael Biddle** · 09-08-2008, 01:34 PM

I leave my gunman at the door.

**Soliloquy** · 09-08-2008, 01:34 PM

Obfuscate your forum title so completely that no one can find you? lol

**Caddyman** · 09-08-2008, 01:43 PM

eh i see some forums that are either broke or purposely closed to the world and are invite only, thats some security

i went to sign up on a phillies forum to "chat" the other day and the forum part was closed, no permission message on every page. i type in register.php on the back of the url and got to register, then had to wait for admin approval. talk about fort knoxs.

**Soliloquy** · 09-08-2008, 01:46 PM

was there any activity on that forum, Caddy? Maybe it's been around for a while and they'd rather keep the undesirables out? :wink:

**Caddyman** · 09-08-2008, 02:42 PM

yes that is exactly what is was, very active, just to keep people out who would troll teh thread who hated the phillies..