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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. Re:CAPTCHA project by vsync64 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    professional Slashdot programmers

    Ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hee hee *giggle* HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!

    Ahem. Sorry.

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  2. Re:Likewise, a legless person... by istar · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And now we all know why you keep posting as anonymous coward.... because you simply don't want people to know who it is that is putting such a negative feel towards disabled people, something morally wrong by at least half of the people reading this. Geeze, let it go and drop it. You want me to listen? Try posting under a person rather than a coward.

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