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Title: Captcha foiled already!
Post by: Achilles Last Stand on July 07, 2007, 02:03:38 PM

Spam gangs crack captcha code:


http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/128063.html (http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/128063.html)

Title: Re: Captcha foiled already!
Post by: roseway on July 07, 2007, 02:14:38 PM

:(

Title: Re: Captcha foiled already!
Post by: kitz on July 07, 2007, 02:29:06 PM

Not good news :(

Although the article is a little sparse on what captchas have been cracked - or if its the whole lot.
Theres different levels of captchas, and some captchas being specific to certain bulletin boards.  The phpbb captcha was cracked quite a while ago and one of the reasons why I changed to something else.

Title: Re: Captcha foiled already!
Post by: feliscatusx2 on July 07, 2007, 03:04:46 PM

Captcha?

Who he?  :no:

Title: Re: Captcha foiled already!
Post by: kitz on July 07, 2007, 03:14:59 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha

Title: Re: Captcha foiled already!
Post by: feliscatusx2 on July 07, 2007, 03:21:24 PM

I see, thank you.

We used to use something similar at work to find out whether new Managers were human, got some very odd results.

Title: Re: Captcha foiled already!
Post by: kitz on July 07, 2007, 03:27:10 PM

lol I bet.

btw some of those psycho-diagnostic testing they do is weird. 
I went to a job application many years ago, and practically the full day was a series of these tests and role plays.  (I got the job)

Title: Re: Captcha foiled already!
Post by: mr_chris on July 10, 2007, 09:09:45 AM

Yeah, I always knew that you were a bit mental :P
/me hides

Title: Re: Captcha foiled already!
Post by: kitz on July 10, 2007, 09:50:22 AM

>>  I always knew that you were a bit mental

heh at least you speaketh the truth - "only a bit mental"  ;)

Title: Re: Captcha foiled already!
Post by: Floydoid on July 12, 2007, 05:58:32 AM

Ttat is worrying indeed.  The Captcha is a kind of reverse Turing test... I suppose one day soon a computer will eventually pass the Turing test.