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[Jeff Siegel]

 >>Maybe this would make a nice NYPHP demo? :-) Complete with porn?
 > Sure... a PHundamentals called:  "Gotchas with Captchas"

Better title? "Gotchas with Captchas and Pitchas" ?

Jeff Siegel

Hans Zaunere wrote:

>>>i knew SOMEONE would bring up OCR
>>
>>That wasn't OCR. It's actually a very creative technique. As far as
> 
> I'm
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>>aware, Yahoo was the first one that was attacked with this method.
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> Rasmus
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>>was talking about it at ApacheCon.
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> "The ingenious crack is to offer a free porn site which requires that
> you key in the solution to a captcha -- which has been inlined from
> Yahoo or Hotmail -- before you can gain access. Free porn sites attract
> lots of users around the clock, and the spammers were able to generate
> captcha solutions fast enough to create as many throw-away email
> accounts as they wanted."
> 
> Really, that is genius.  Almost kind of makes me to join force with
> spammers... *duck* - it's certainly more clever than anything Norton or
> McAfee have come up with  :)  
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> 
>>Maybe this would make a nice NYPHP demo? :-) Complete with porn?
> 
> 
> Sure... a PHundamentals called:  "Gotchas with Captchas"  :)
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> H
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