baptiste.gourdin

<p>TalkBack is a open-source secure LinkBack mechanism based on a public-key cryptography that aims at tackling the blog spam problem at its root: instead of detecting spam via the content analysis like Akismet, TalkBack prevents spammers from posting LinkBack notifications. When installed TalkbBack add the two following lines of defense to your blog:</p>
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<p>The first line of defense is a lightweight PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) that ensures the identity of blogs by using public key cryptography. Moreover using cryptography allows TalkBack to guarantee that no one can tampers with your TalkBack notifications and that the receiver will received them unaltered.</p>
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<p>The second line of defense, is a global rate limiting system enforced by the TalkBack authorities that ensures that with a single blog identity, a spammer cannot massively spam TalkBack aware blogs.</p>
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<p>TalkBack is compatible with every other defense mechanism and do not store/disclose any private information about your blog or you. As a matter of fact if you don’t trust the network, TalkBack can also encrypt your notification to protect them from eavesdroppers.</p>
<p>A complete description of Talkback is available here: http://code.google.com/p/talkback-client/downloads/detail?name=talkback-paper.pdf and the source code here: http://code.google.com/p/talkback-client/downloads/detail?name=talkback-wordpress-plugin.pdf</p>


Talkback

TalkBack is a secure protocol for LinkBack notification designed to prevent the blogosphere from being spammed.

Matthias Pfefferle

David Shanske

Terence Eden

<p>Generates richer WordPress comments from linkbacks such as <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/webmention" rel="ugc">Webmention</a> or classic linkback protocols like Trackback or Pingback.</p>
<p>The limited display for trackbacks and linkbacks is replaced by a clean full sentence, such as “Bob mentioned this article on bob.com.” If Bob’s site uses markup that the plugin can interpret, it may add his profile picture or other parts of his page to display as a full comment. It will optionally show collections of profile pictures, known as Facepiles, instead of the full setences.</p>
<p>Semantic Linkbacks uses <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2" rel="nofollow ugc">Microformats 2</a> to get information about the linked post and it is highly extensible to also add support for other forms of markup.</p>
<h3>Privacy and Data Collection</h3>
<p>This plugin collects data from sites that send webmentions for the purpose of displaying richer comments on a site. This data is under the control of the site owner. It is the personal responsibility of that individual or individuals to remove any information at the request of the original content creator. Over time, we will add additional tools to assist in doing so.</p>
<h3>Thanks to</h3>
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<li>Pelle Wessman (<a href="https://github.com/voxpelli" rel="nofollow ugc">@voxpelli</a>) for his awesome <a href="https://github.com/voxpelli/node-webmention-testpinger" rel="nofollow ugc">WebMention test-pinger</a></li>
<li>Ryan Barrett (<a href="https://github.com/snarfed" rel="nofollow ugc">@snarfed</a>) for his feedback and pull requests</li>
<li>Barnaby Walters (<a href="https://github.com/barnabywalters" rel="nofollow ugc">@barnabywalters</a>) for his awesome <a href="https://github.com/indieweb/php-mf2" rel="nofollow ugc">mf2 parser</a></li>
<li>David Shanske (<a href="https://github.com/dshanske" rel="nofollow ugc">@dshanske</a>) for his feedback and a lot of pull requests</li>
<li>(<a href="https://github.com/acegiak" rel="nofollow ugc">@acegiak</a>) for the initial plugin</li>
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Semantic-Linkbacks

Richer Comments and Linkbacks for WordPress!

Talkback vs Semantic-Linkbacks