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Baffling the Spam Bots

Posted by michael on from the change-addresses-every-six-weeks dept.

dumpster_dave writes "Scientific American is running an article, Baffling the Bots on techniques to outsmart and subvert spam bots and their chat-room cousins via CAPTCHA. You have probable seen this in the form of images containing text as gate-keepers to various on-line services. The latest evolution is using non-words and distorting the text such that even the best AI systems cannot decipher them, yet humans can not help but do so [cf., Gestalt Psychology]."

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  1. MICHAEL SIMS IS A PARASITE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
  2. MICHAEL COMPULSIVELY PRACTICES COPROPHAGIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    'nuff said

  3. Re:Captcha is fucking stupid by sexecutioner · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Dude,

    I think your use of language is fucking awesome, and what you say about beating this shit is pure brilliance! Getting lame cunts off the internet to process them for you is pure gold.

    Rock on.

  4. Re:Blind Users by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh god, here come the fucking whinging crips again. Boo fucking hoo. Why the fuck should I have to spend money putting in fucking ramps and special shit houses JUST IN CASE a crip wants to come and work for me?

    There are some beautiful sunsets on the skyline over my city. Are the blind going to start suing the city authorities now because they can't see them? What about deaf-oes who can't hear the birds singing?

    The whole fucking "accessibility" nonsense has gone too far. Just accept the fact that some things will just be denied to you forever through no fault of anybody's, and there is fuck all you can do about it. Otherwise you will poison yourself and everyone around you with your own bitterness.

    And if you're that fucking bothered, get some cunt who CAN see to fucking read it out to you. You can even afford to PAY him out of the money you save by not having to buy fucking light bulbs or have your fucking windows cleaned.

  5. What if everyone responds to the spam? by outanowhere · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What if everyone who received a spam clicked on the url for the product's page to check out the product, maybe checking it out twice or so?

    Wouldn't that get expensive for the spam hosting site and their mark--I mean, "customer"?

    Especially if everyone just looked without buying?

    Might cost someone so much money that the business would be bankrupt rather quickly.

    Or it might make an upstream provider so annoyed at the traffic to the spam site that they might pull the plug on the scammer--I mean, "spammer".

    Well, perhaps we should just buy their stuff, instead of going to just look... After all, it is the right thing to do, no?