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Turing Tests to Stop Spam

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the human-authentication dept.

cexy writes "The Register has a story about how Hotmail and Yahoo! are using Carnegie Mellon developed captcha technology (completely automated public Turing tests to tell computers and humans apart) to stop spammers from automating signups for accounts from which they can send spam. These guys are using captcha too, but to stop incoming spam."

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  1. Geeze by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    a little lacking in the old comment department here, aren't we?

    Could it be noone really gives a fuck about this technology?

  2. Re:The first step is stopping it from getting ther by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    yahoo doea allow you to block eniter domains, dumbass.

  3. you are a retard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    please do not have children.

    Seriously, if you can't be bothered to read the article, maybe you shouldn't be posting to slashdot.

  4. you suck by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    1: Mention SpamAssassin
    2: ???
    3: +1 Insightful

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