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Update: So, I did “Press This” 2nd time though had sweared here to abstain from it
It takes twenty years to
become an overnight success
~Cantor, Eddie
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That’s it!
During first 2 days after republishing, this “re-article” had 0 (zero) votes and overnight it got 17 downvotes, so I decided to comment why it is here.
This article was initially just one link, as I left on the 1st line, produced by clicking in Gloria Rand’s article “My Top 5 Free Keyword Research Tools” the WordPress.com’s blog button “Press This”.
It was my 1st and, I believe, the last experience with “Press This” if this functionality changes or I master to change it.
I did not like the fact that article appeared republished w/o giving credits to original author or its ID (whatever it is link, username, blog, webpage or avatar). It appears as mine in search results, has my own link http://keycaptchaured.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/my-top-5-free-keyword-research-tools, etc., etc.
This is the same problem as re-tweeting in twitter when a copyist (especially news bot aggregators, concentrators, etc.) receive credits becoming top twitterer, an author of a tweet on paper.li, being mentioned as an author “via”, etc., etc.
I still keep it because I need it as an illustrating example for more general article(s), I am writing now, on republishing and authors’ rights on the internet and some questions/suggestions to WP.com forums and support
And I hope the author, Gloria Rand, permitted me to keep it if I add more quotes 
How to Lie without being Caught-22 (Lessons Learned from Communicating with KeyCAPTCHA.com)
Wisdom says that a liar should have a good memory. Not true on the internet, it is enough to manage to change or remove your previous publications.
I and others caught KeyCAPTCHA.com, my former employer, to publicly lie hundreds times and you will not find any such publications.
From my observations, the posts on the forums based on WCMSs (Web Content Management System) like
- vBulletin – permits changes
- phpBB - - permits changes
- SMF (SimpleMachines Forums) – permits delete
- Drupal
- Twitter (well, it is probably not WCMS and permits only to delete tweets but I hate Twitter no less for having permitted to slander and scam me by this feature)
usually let to change posts later, even after replies, whenever an author likes.
While on
- WordPress
- Joomla (after being replied?)
- IPB (aka IP.Board, InvsionPower Board) Services, how one should tag it in Social Media, I wonder?
do not (but only in a few minutes time immediately after posting) .
CSS Tutorials
What’s the point of permitting life-time changing (or deleting) what some has written, even after having dozens replies, I wonder?
One can check the forum’s CMS at the bottom of a web page and double-check it at webpage souce finding a string “generator”. Here is an example of HTML element from WordPress forum HTML-element:
- <meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 3.2″ />
What about comments in blogs and posts that cannot be edited/deleted?
Shit stolen from http://trupokarudos.com/?attachment_id=3442
That’s also simple. KeyCAPTCHA Team has done it many times. It is enough post personal attacks on a participant the more and uglier the “better” until any sense is lost, then ask moderators, administrators/owner of the blog to delete the whole topic or branch for a flame and/or off-topic.
100% results of topic ensured to delete a thread, branch or a whole topic!
If the results are not immediate, just return and do it again and again.
08/19/2011 Update:
In Soviet Russia, spam activity of spam-captchas block human's access (We have detected spam activity, your actions are blocked)
Hilarious confirmation of this shit-technique employed by KeyCAPTCHA itself.
Read all thread!
“We have detected spam activity, your actions are blocked”
In Soviet Russia, spam activity of spam-captchas block human’s access
Another technique is to block writers (blog commenters) through its KeyCAPTCHA by IP-address.
This is very clever to self-advertise you, only fans of KeyCAPTCHA and advertising will be able to use internet soon.
Why Is KeyCAPTCHA the Lose-Lose for a Webmaster/Publisher
“The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self”
Pearl Bailey
So, KeyCAPTCHA.com announced commercialization of its anti-spam service enticing webmasters by paying for letting unavoidable unwarranted to end-users advertising pass through anti-spam CAPTCHAs.
Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil
What’s wrong with it for webmasters (owners of web resources)?
Webmaters And Advertisers Earnings Depend on End-User but Not Vice Versa or How the Formers Share End-User’s Money
The earning of webmaster depend on on website popularity, eventually on its user-friendliness, convenience, respect of user’s rights, etc.
End-users (visitors of websites) hate CAPTCHAs, even more they hate advertising
Leaving no choice but to inevitably interact with advertising will not make most users content
Eventually, it is end-users whose money is shared , advertisers and webmasters are just intermediaries.
Intrusive Unavoidable Advertising is Crime
Sharing the earnings with webmasters or established practice of unwarranted advertising doesn’t make the latter legitimate
Laws on advertising and on-line services providing of any countries stipulate that advertising cannot be intrusive – the user should explicitly agree on advertising and have options to reject, or, at least, ignore it. Publishers (in this case webmasters) are risking to be prosecuted
Is it Really So Lucrative in Practice?
Advertisers do not pay for any interaction with advertising but only by specific users with specific profiles (interests) from specific geo-locations, etc.
KeyCAPTCHA does not have (a lot of) advertisers and here are some feedbacl of disfrunted webmasters from campaigns of advertising-capthchas with existing pool of advertisers:
- ”And remember that is thirty days of revenue. I make more on two or three adsense clicks”
- “My board is not visited by US citizens so I’ll never get the revenue”
- etc.
What’s the Point in Outsourcing and Centralizing Your Security?
KeyCAPTCHA Blocks Humans
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In Soveit Russia, CAPTCHAs Block Humans from its own Spam Activity
You are outsourcing your decisions on whom to interact with your website and who is spammer.
For example, I am not bot but I am blockedby IP-address from any webresource access or functionality requiring KeyCAPTCHA because KeyCAPTCHA.com Team decided that I am a spammer!
How do you know who else they do not or will not like?
- Centralized Services are More Frequent Victims of DDOS Attacks
While working in keycaptcha.com, I had asked:“Why do I make from me a fool by promoting KeyCAPTCHA http://hidemail.at while the keycatcha.com website publishes its Email support@keycaptcha.com without ?”and the answer was that it is externl service which can be down or blocked by a DDOS attack.Note it should not be down completely, it is enough if a DDOS attackcomes from your region for a datacenter used by KeyCAPTCHA service to geo-filter packets from your direction and KeyCAPTCHA appear down for you.
Centralized Service is More Attractive for Hackers than a Single SiteIt is centralized external service, if it is hacked (also quite common situation nowadays), it is not just one protected websites but thousands.
And this is quite appealing for hackers nowadays
KeyCAPTCHA Spam Platform – Rebutting KeyCAPTCHA.com’s Claims that Spamming is Legal
In my previous article
I wrote about the dispute between the owner of http://ipbskins.ru, caught unawares by KeyCAPTCHA.com anti-spam service started to serve spam (ads picture puzzles + ads link) and disappearance of previous non-ads free captcha options.
To Spam. or Not to Spam, That Is Already Not a Question. At least, for KeyCAPTCHA Team
In the followed afterwards discussion, in comments to Fisana’s blog and in ipbskins.ru forum post. KeyCAPTCHA Team re-stated that, according to changes of rules on August 2, 2011, webmasters have no free no-ads options any more. Now, there are 2 options to use (3d one to stop using) KeyCAPTCHA service ONLY:
- to buy “Personalized CAPTCHA” service (and serve whatever you want, including your own captchas without ads)
- to create advertising campaign permitting 3d-party ads to earn money. Hacking to remove ads picture (puzzles) and ads links will lbe punished by ban
- to uninstall KeyCAPTCHA plug-in and install alternative measure of anti-spam protection
So, recapitulating the “new” KeyCAPTCHA’s policies and rules:
- no opt-in to refuse (unsubsribe) from ads by addressee
In Russia, it is illegal under Part 2 of article 10 of Федеральный Закон Российской Федерации 149-ФЗ от 27 июля 2006 г. ”ОБ ИНФОРМАЦИИ, ИНФОРМАЦИОННЫХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЯХ И О ЗАЩИТЕ ИНФОРМАЦИИ” - the ads are being provided without prior obligatory consent by addressee
In Russia, it is is illegal according to article 18.1 of Федеральный закон Российской Федерации от 13 марта 2006 г. 38-ФЗ “О рекламе” - no option of free of charge service without external/3d-party ads
This seems to be available in any other CAPTCHA service, including those promoted as ads platforms - impossible to identify of a person distributing ads:
KeyCAPTCHA Team is in Russia,
now presents itself as US-based Mersane Ltd.,
having presented itself untill the March, 2011 as Joint Stock ITNP (ЗАО ИТНП)
under the jurisdiction (see item 10.6) “of the Republic of Seychelles, without regard to conflict-of-laws provisions”
In Russia, it is illegal under Part 2 of article 10 of Федеральный Закон Российской Федерации 149-ФЗ от 27 июля 2006 г. ”ОБ ИНФОРМАЦИИ, ИНФОРМАЦИОННЫХ ТЕХНОЛОГИЯХ И О ЗАЩИТЕ ИНФОРМАЦИИ” - No guarantees or liabilities by KeyCAPTCHA.com , see item 4 of KeyCAPTCHA’s ToS
In Russia, it is illegal under article 12 , article 38 of Федеральный закон Российской Федерации от 13 марта 2006 г. 38-ФЗ “О рекламе”
I cited the laws of Russian Federaration though there are similar statements in the laws of most countries stating that unavoidable advertising (or intrusive or inescapable or indivertible or unpreventable or encroaching or meddlesome or invasive advertising) is illegal.
Read for example: “Unavoidable Advertising – Is It Legal in the U.S.?”
I skipped EU legislation since US one is the most relaxed.
The KeyCAPTCHa.com Team argues then that:
- unwarranted advertising is omnipresent in TV, printed press, cinema, etc.
Well, this is demagoguery – I can always opt to skip watching or reading unwarranted ads and by this will not block deprive me from access other resources. - that spamming is legal as far as online service informs about it in its ToS (Terms of Service)
No comments: commit any crime, just don’t forget write your rules for this, even afterwards, as KeyCAPTCHA.com did.
- KeyCAPTCHA Scam – How to Make Spam Unavoidable
- KeyCAPTCHA Spam Platform – Rebutting KeyCAPTCHA.com’s Claims that Spamming is Legal (this one)
- KeyCAPTCHA “Genius” Demagoguery – Antispam Spamming Platform: Why to Buy a Spambot, Buy the Spam-thru-CAPTCHAs Share
- What Is the “first” in KeyCAPTCHA and Why to Have it Externally, i.e. Out of Control?
History:
KeyCAPTCHA, I’m a Liar – Pants on Fire – Was I Good or Bad?
I am 48, Cybernetics Engineer, the last 14 years worked as IT commercial coder. Well, I always coded but before IT it was R&D – science and applied maths, AI, numerical and analytical calculations, that stuff.
I should confess that I have never blogged or tweeted before the beginning of this year2011. InDecember, 2011, I was “employed” by Joint Stock ITNP (keycaptcha.com,) “company”, I still do not know how to title it, as Software Developer in Test and Supporter. The latter was supposed to be minor duty since there was very little amount of users as well as problems.
Since I was initially quite excited by the technical and “business” perspectives. оn my own initiative and against the employer’s opinion that it was a wate of time, I created twitter account KeyCAPTCHA and started to tweet. The results were astonishing – in a week, the rate of visitors of keycaptcha.com web site increased thrice!
Later, after I was fired, my employer (KeyCAPTCHA.com) started to insist that:
- I had never been working for KeyCAPTCHA.com (in order to avoid paying me my salary),
- I stole KeyCAPTCHA twitter account toextort money which was caught devolved with the help by police
Why were such ridiculous claims that someone can distort 10,000 USD by stealing someone’s twitter account?
Look at statistics of keycaptcha.com daily visitor rates (the figure temporarily removed, I’ll send privately it on request):
- January 23, 2011 – I renamed my private(personal) twitter account into @KeyCAPTCHA (KeyCAPTCHA Team) and started to promote through KeyCAPTCHA plugins to KeyCAPTCHA service;
- 05/03/2011 – I was dismissed
- 05/06/2011 – the visiting of KeyCAPTCHA.com started to drop, since my former employer (“company” KeyCAPTCHA.com) had shot itself in its foot by contesting the ownership of KeyCAPTCHA twitter account which was thereafter suspended!
BTW, the increase stopped because I had been categorically prohibited to post anything except official news duplicating them from company’s “What’s new” section of website. I also was prohibited to blog about KeyCAPTCHA.
One of the main and the only proof of KeyCAPTCHA.com that I am a liar and crook was that I blogged (posted articles) under multiple accounts in http://scam.com :
“He has (had) a few accounts on scam.com but the owner of these accounts is the same person.
We want to thank the moderators of scam.com. They have blocked all his accounts.
Here are his banned accounts:
http://scam.com/member.php?u=182837
http://scam.com/member.php?u=182740
http://scam.com/member.php?u=182624Best regards,
KeyCAPTCHA Team”
This, posting from multiple accounts or commenting blogs under multiple nicknames, was what I was taught and instructed to do for promoting discussions on KeyCAPTCHA while I was working in KeyCAPTCHA Team .
It is what all members of KeyCAPTCHA Team regularly did before my coming to KeyCAPTCHA.com and continue doing after my leaving it.
For example, this blog article “Плагин KeyCAPTCHA” has a few comments on July 5, 2011, under multiple nicknames (KeyCAPTCHA and Bob) by the same person of KeyCAPTCHA Team presenting itself both as KeyCAPTCHA Team member (under KeyCAPTCHA nickname) and as a “passer-by” fan of KeyCAPTCHA reading all my publications (under Bob nickname). Let me remind that I was fire in May, 2011
It is now common practice when companies and state governments order and pay for marketing campaigns, so called astroturfing, use “sock puppets” (multiple false online personalities) in social media and even use the software for its automatization .
Another common practice is that most social media accounts openly advertise and promote its parallel accounts from the same person. For example, in Twitter:
- @yochum‘s bio tells:
“Follow my technology consultancy business tweets @Plexpod“ - @GyanSinghSEO’s bio:
“ Web Analyst, Internet Marketing.Follow me on: @seo_gyansingh @seoexpert2india“ - @CyberWar:
“Richard Stiennon, security industryanalyst reporting on cyber defence and author of Surviving Cyberwar . Also follow me at @stiennon - etc.
While I can understand why accounts being banned and blogs deleted by SCAM.com, I cannot agree that blogs are being deleted without any previous warning and giving the chance to comply with rules because the scam.com’s rules shown during registration do not tell anything about prohibiting multiple accounts for blogging.
Is it also common practice that webresources do not have any rules or intentionally have rules that impossible to comprehend and/or follow? promoting the situation that nobody cares to read or comply with them ?
So, is posting from multiple accounts a fraud or common de-facto practice on the internet?
Or, is it both?
Is it contagious?
Should I stop lying or perfect me in this?
What do you think?
Debunking KeyCAPTCHA Myths (3d-party publications)
It’s non-marketed (non-paid, non-promoted and often deleted at request of KeyCAPTCHA Team) point of view on keycaptcha.com services.
Judge yourself.
I am only citing the publications of others (to which I have no relation or involvement) or easily verifiable on the internet data.
I even do not publish my info on keycaptcha.com scams as insider (and former employee) of keycaptcha.com
Antispam KeyCAPTCHA.com is being reported as known spammer:
- keycaptcha.com Email address is in blacklist of known spammers (of services from which is impossible or difficult to unsubscribe)
Source (in Russian) with the list of spamming Emails/services:
http://vkontakte.ru/wall109343155_2583 - “looks like harvesting of post addresses. Impossible to download… You completed the task incorrectly. You completed the task incorrectly” (translated from Russian)
http://joomlaforum.ru/index.php/topic,138180.msg882437.html#msg882437 - etc.
Keycaptcha Unpublished from JED (oomla Extension Directory) for Fraud
KeyCAPTCHA plugin contribution is unpublished from:
- From JED (Joomla Extension Directory) for fraudulent voting
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KeyCAPTCHA service plugin is in Joomla.org’s Vulnerable Extension List:
- KeyCAPTCHA Mod was removed from SimpleMachines.org
- etc.
It is not true that KeyCAPTCHA is unbreakable by bots,
as it is being affirmed by keycaptcha.com marketing publications, it is just not being hacked on unpopular web resources. Tthere are hundred of publications debunking KeyCAPTCHA’s invincibility:
- “I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but spam on our forum and increased tenfold since installing KeyCAPTCHA.
If anything, it seems less secure than the reCAPTCHA or the Q&A methods (both of which are far from perfect, but seem to cut spam more than KeyCAPTCHA does).
I’ve been deleting spam posts and banning spammers all day for a couple of days now – hundreds of them – since installing this” http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showpost.php?p=2180505&postcount=40 - Cracking of Interactive CAPTCHA (In Russian “Взлом интерактивной CAPTCHA”):
http://webbonews.ru/vzlom-interaktivnoj-captcha/ - “As promising as this looked. Spambots were still able to register”
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=413168.msg3042682#msg3042682 - “This is a pretty lousy captcha, as it wouldn’t exactly be difficult to write a program that could match a piece to a grayscale version of the same image”
http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/exa5e/i_think_this_is_genius_but_i_cant_be_certain/ - I’m using Spam-O-Matic in conjunction with KeyCAPTCHA but neither seem to make any difference as far as spammer signups go (vBulletin)
- etc.
KeyCAPTCHA being Uninstalled and Replaced by Other Antispam Solution(s) on hundreds webresources due its to technical or usability problems:
- “@ECOTOX We just switched to another CAPTCHA extension, Keycaptcha seems to be giving problems”
http://twitter.com/#!/RootzWiki/status/84137528520744961
- KeyCAPTCHA replaced by less problematic & more intuitive anti-spam solution
Source (in Russian): http://vkontakte.ru/wall-27039534_10 - Forum Captcha (was KeyCAPTCHA, then uninstalled) does not work on Android, Windows Phone 7 App…
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1019885
- “Removed KeyCAPTCHA Installed @GrowMap’s Anti-Spambot Plugin Happy! http://www.growmap.com/growmap-anti-spambot-plugin #WordPress #Spam “
Source: http://twitter.com/#!/luxEffect/status/79158049574617088
- etc.
Non-Usability & User Un-Friendliness of Interactive CAPTCHAs
And interactive captchas cannot support the blind.
Might be this is my lie and slander but I could not find any publications proving the opposite.
- “If I had to register a new account right now, I don’t think I would because that keycaptcha shit is too hard”
http://cheatingnetwork.net/forums/suggestions/91746-get-rid-spammers.html#post836727
“Apparently Keycaptcha isn’t working too well. I still suggest requiring like 10 posts to make a thread”
http://cheatingnetwork.net/forums/suggestions/91746-get-rid-spammers.html#post837912 - “May I also present something half as disasterously unusable: the KeyCAPTCHA https://www.keycaptcha.com. I couldn’t get past it :s”
http://twitter.com/#!/MattehFox/status/91255810654609409
- 2011/07/07
“keycaptcha.com - holy shit”
http://twitter.com/#!/FabianBeiner/status/88969542017105920 - 2011/06/24
“@RootzWiki I have been trying to register for 30min now and it wont let me, keeps telling me my captcha is wrong =/” http://twitter.com/#!/ECOTOX/status/84123162270380032
” @KeyCAPTCHA Ubuntu & Windows in Chrome, Firefox, & Internet Explorer on 2 desktops & laptop, put picture together but always said its wrong “
http://twitter.com/#!/ECOTOX/status/84177076537659392 - 2011/06/04
“KeyCAPTCHA – causes me wild butthurt, been trying to pass it during 5 min in vain, no way”
Translated from Russian:
“KeyCAPTCHA – какой-то дикий батхерт доставляет, тыкаю ее уже минут пять, не выходит ни рожна”
https://twitter.com/#!/skurudo/status/76981537681321984 - Idiotic Capthas (ыйе6анутейшая капча)
http://dle.in.ua/forum/topic_8534/#post-62364 - “Interactive CAPTCHAs: Step forward or backward?” (PDF)
- etc.
LOL:
“I love puzzles. I made 9 accounts!”
Cited from: http://ww.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/exa5e/i_think_this_is_genius_but_i_cant_be_certain/c1boo5w
Cited from: http://joomlaforum.ru/index.php?PHPSESSID=7df383cdc3a55a15eef9216adcc90064&topic=138180.msg752789#msg752789
Gennady
former KeyCAPTCHA Team member
caught by police in cooperation with my former employer (KeyCAPTCHA.com Team) for receiving my salary qualified as extortion
InvisionPower.com Joins Association of Black Employers. I Just Wanted to Tell you, How I Love You, IPS/IPB
If you are curious about the strange date of this article,
please read my:
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KeyCAPTCHA Deceptive Descriptions Distributed Through InvisiobPower Web Sites is Not IPS's Concernt (Not My Job) Credit funvideoworld.com
. Relativity applies to to physics, not ethics
~Albert Einstein
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To avoid the flame and off-topic in public forums, , I tried to privately report on intentional fraudulent misinformation published by anti-spam KeyCAPTCHA.com on Invision Power Services site My private communication (in password protected) ticket WAS SHARED WITH ABUSER (BTW, currently bullying and sueing me criminally my ex-employer KeyCAPTCHA.com), click and see the excerpt below in red. So, I have a few questions:
- What is the sense to block 3d party posts, opinions, reports, feedback on websites ? How can such information, software provided by InvisionPower Services Inc. be trusted if any critics is blocked and ignored?
- Is it ethical to allude in password protected private communication and then to copy it to abuser?
If Interested in a Free Service, then Don’t Promote it?
Half the work that is done in this world
is to make things appear what they are not
~Beadle, E. R.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic
~Arthur C. Clarke’s 3d Law of Prediction)
But magic can sometimes just be an illusion
~Javan
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion
~Barbara Harrison
A hallucination is a fact, not an error;
what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it
~Bertrand Russell
So, after a storm of angry publications by unhappy webmasters and uninstalls of KeyCAPTCHA plugings, on August 14, 2011, KeyCAPTCHA.com “announced” (by posting a few replies, for example here and there) that the free of charge option of its service was restored from August 8, 2011 (probably because the last post of KeyCAPTCHA defending its removal was from August 7, 2011, see the same links upward). Novosibirsk time (GMT +6:00) everywhere in this article.
The most funny thing was that there were no changes in ToS or any descriptions on keycaptcha.com webite whatsoever! But wait, there’s more