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Identity Problems Hurt Online Commerce
Yesterday, we talked about how identity theft, phishing, and other identity-related problems are hurting online commerce. Kim Cameron has posted some excerpts from a Wall Street Journal story that gives some surprising details about how identity problems affect people’s behavior online. In short, the lack of a credible identity infrastructure for the Internet, threatens to arrest progress in electronic transactions and could very well ruin the net for anything of any sophistication. Even blogging is under attack. I’ve been getting hammered today with comment and trackback spam. Ugh!
Posted by windley on July 13, 2005 4:16 PM
Comment from Brian Sweeting at July 13, 2005 11:11 PM
As far as the comment and trackback spam goes, you might want to give badbehavior a try (http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/). It's a "set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles from known spambots." I use it and I have noticed a huge reduction in comment and trackback spam on my weblog. I never seemed to have much luck with it, but MT-Blacklist might help as well.
Comment from Brian Sweeting at July 13, 2005 11:14 PM
Oops, that url didn't got messed up, here is the correct url to badbehavior:
http://www.ioerror.us/software/bad-behavior/