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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. Re:I don't receive any spam by Sir+Haxalot · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'm not one to go about shouting the praises of Microsoft, but someone over there's got their head out of their asses.
    Unfortunatly, noone has yet to get their head out of Uncle Bill's ass.
    (posting AC because I'm a pussy)

    --
    I have over 70 freaks, do you?
  2. Re:Not enough riddles? by mlush · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Something like:
    What has it got in its pocketsss? ;)

    HissSSSssSSS Fish, String or nothing!

  3. I propose... by Rebel_Princess · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I propose a blacklist, run by music pirates, of people who upload Christian music.

    I'm proud to have one of the most extensive Christian rock sections that I know of.

    "Dude, I'm going to put this CD on the Internet right away."

    "Yeah, dude, that's really lete [sic], you'll get lots of respect."