Now that I am getting my share of comment spam, I’ve installed one of the two dozen different plugins for WP to help deal with the problem. I finally decided on Elliott Back’s WP plugin that uses obfuscated JavaScript functions to decode and deliver a hash that’s then verified server side for authenticity.

It seems to work fine with Firefox 1.07 and Konqueror from KDE 3.3.2.

I’m using the 3.0 beta release. You’ll need to download all four files. I had to change the location of the hash to /tmp for permissions issues. I could’ve changed the group ownership of my wp-content directory, but didn’t feel like it. The former approach is more risky, but whatever.