Comments on: Exactly What Data Are You Sending to Akismet?

By: h0bbel.p0ggel.org

h0bbel.p0ggel.org — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:44:07 +0000

[...] wonder if people actually realize how much data Akismet actually gathers? For some reason it sends much more data than the actual comments, and combine all that information with views, post/page views, referrers, and clicks that the new [...]

By: h0bbel.p0ggel.org

h0bbel.p0ggel.org — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:44:05 +0000

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By: Gea-Suan Lin's BLOG

Gea-Suan Lin's BLOG — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:03:40 +0000

WordPress 2.0 Beta 1 - Akismet

WordPress 2.0 Beta 1 引入了 Akismet，一個 Antispam Service，這個 Service 需要一個 WordPress.com API key，我剛好有，所以我就裝起來測試看看。不過，即使測試了以後發現效果很好，我可能還是會換回 Spam …

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Sun, 20 Nov 2005 20:59:56 +0000

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By: MellerTime

MellerTime — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 19:11:30 +0000

That’s the point though… We actually manually set “referrer” to HTTP_REFERRER and “user_agent” to HTTP_USER_AGENT, and then go and include the whole raw $_SERVER anyway… Seems a bit… fishy. If not fishy, then certainly huge overkill.

I’ve added said “Neuter Akismet” option to the plugin, which prevents this. No noticeable impact as of yet, but we’ll see how it fares in further testing.

By: ANONYMOUS?

ANONYMOUS? — Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:57:45 +0000

I am sure it is partly due to robots… If you can see that there is a HTTP_REFERER/etc. you can tell if it’s a robot or not (or at the least, tell the dumb robots from the smart robots).

But yeah, there’s no need for the ENTIRE $_SERVER array to be joined, only certain tell-tale array keys.