Baffling the Spam Bots

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Posted by michael on Sunday October 19, 2003 @07:02PM 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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Re:I don't receive any spam by Sir+Haxalot · 2003-10-19 19:06 · 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)

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I have over 70 freaks, do you?
MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-19 19:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Not only was this Offtopic, but it's not original either. This troll is from a previous one posted by rkz here. You're a shame to the trolling game, fool.
Re:Captcha is fucking stupid by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-19 19:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

So why was my fucking shit moderated down then? Because the fuckers who USE captcha are afraid of my fucking ideas getting out into the real world. I am being censored for my motherfucking politically sensitive speech!
Again, your language is used terribly by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-19 19:38 · Score: -1, Offtopic

So why was my fucking shit moderated down then? Because the fuckers who USE captcha are afraid of my fucking ideas getting out into the real world. I am being censored for my motherfucking politically sensitive speech!

Here's how you could have said it without sounding like a fucking idiot:

Why the fuck was my post moderated down? The motherfuckers who use captcha are fucking scared that people are going to start questioning their shit. The chickenshit moderators can't stand to have their goddamned baloons pricked by ideas that fall outside of their fucking worldview.
Re:Captcha is fucking stupid by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-19 20:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

it will slow down your cocksucking rate

I wonder what exactly were you talking about here...
Re:Not enough riddles? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-19 21:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Something like:
What has it got in its pocketsss? ;)
Re:Not enough riddles? by mlush · 2003-10-19 21:49 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Something like:
What has it got in its pocketsss? ;)
HissSSSssSSS Fish, String or nothing!
I propose... by Rebel_Princess · 2003-10-19 22:08 · 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."
Re:Captcha is fucking stupid by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-19 22:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

See you in motherfucking metamoderation, you cum guzzling cocksucking motherfucking god damned jesus christ'n son of a bitch'n knee jerk'n moderating fuckwads!