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CAPTCHAs are easy to beat

CAPTCHAs are easy to beat

Posted Aug 26, 2006 4:58 UTC (Sat) by dlang (subscriber, #313)
In reply to: Devious by gjmarter
Parent article: Fighting image spam

all it takes are pictures of naked females.

just setup a porn site and you can get a LOT of people willing to prove that they are human (by solving the CAPTCHAs that you harvest from the site you want to penetrate (and you probably have enough traffic that you can do this in real-time, you fetch the image from the target, present it to the next person to access the site, and use the result against your target)


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