Are the spammers getting tired or something?

[Bob Schroeck]

Hm. Three spammers got as far as account approval in the last 24 hours. I guess it's finally time to change my security questions, preferably to something an AI can't have easily scraped up somewhere else.

EDIT: Well, I guess "too many" is entirely relative... The page for security questions in the Admin control panel displays statistics, and, well, the original questions had 20-23,000 views each, and the ones which let the most applicants through had no more than 120 correct answers. (And the bots didn't even try to answer them on almost all of the remaining views.) So honestly, my security questions have been doing their job extraordinarily well. Just not quite as well recently. But I decided to change things up anyway, deleting questions that let more than 70 applicants through over the past few years, and creating a dozen or so new questions. And under the assumption that the spammers have been using AI to get around the security questions, I went to ChatGPT and worked with it to come up with questions it would have a hard time answering. I think I have a pretty good bunch now. <grin>