Anonymous forms — minimum safety net
Public contact forms, comment boxes, suggestion pages. The most abused surface on any site. Before jumping to "we must use CAPTCHA", there are lower-cost measures that already stop a lot.
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Public contact forms, comment boxes, suggestion pages. The most abused surface on any site. Before jumping to "we must use CAPTCHA", there are lower-cost measures that already stop a lot.
Rate limiting protects resources, controls cost, and reduces abuse. It looks simple, but in distributed systems decisions accumulate around accuracy, fairness, and UX. This article covers the fixed window, sliding windo…