Porn Rewards Users To Get Past Anti-Spam Captchas

Stalke writes "Spammers are now usings a new technique to circumvent the 'captchas,' the distorted text in graphics, that users must input to receive the free email account. The spammers have cracked the system by displaying the 'captchas' on free porn sites in real time. Since there are always a large number of people signing up for free porn, they do the work of decripting the 'captchas' which is then replayed back into the spammers program to create a new email account. Who thought that porn could be a hacking technique!" Sure sounds plausible, though the link here says only "someone told me."

Comments

Re:Sounds like rubbish

[Mr2cents]

If I'd get started about all the things 'someone told me'.. Someone is a big fat liar!
BTW, did you know the USA put two rovers on the moon a few weeks ago?

Re:Old news and incorrect data

[cerberusss]

You might also want to take a look at the W3C draft on why these visual tests do not work for disabled people.

I have the perfect solution for this! Just use the alt="blah" attribute in the img tag when displaying the captcha! This will allow visually impaired people to enter the text of the captcha!

Hah! I'm so smart!

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