Porn Rewards Users To Get Past Anti-Spam Captchas

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Porn Rewards Users To Get Past Anti-Spam Captchas

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 28, 2004 @02:30AM from the pull-this-lever-a-few-times dept.

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."

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STOUFFER'S SALISBURY STEAK IS ON TEH SPOKE!!!11 by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-28 02:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

OMG, I think I'm going to spooge myself!~~~
decripting!??!?! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-28 02:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

of course you mean decyfring
Easier fix by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-28 02:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

If you stay away from email, you wont need to worry about spam.
1. Re:Easier fix by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-28 02:37 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  If you stay away from computers you wont have to worry about email.
somebody told me by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-28 02:34 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Somebody told me
That you were so stupid.
And I didn't beleive them.
But now I believe them!

Somebody told me
That you were so stupid.
And I didn't beleive them.
But now I believe them!

Everybody's stupid
Everybody's stupid
Everybody's stupid but me!

Somebody told me
That you were so stupid.
And I didn't beleive them.
But now I believe them!

Somebody told me
That you were so stupid.
And I didn't beleive them.
But now I believe them!

And I'm cool.
Can you imagine... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-28 02:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

...A beowulf cluster of masturbating pr0n haxorz??!?
I eat spam on TOAST! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-28 02:36 · Score: -1, Offtopic

toaster,toaster toaser, do you have toast in you yet i think
so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Im not a toaster!!!!!!!!!!And one more
thing........YOUR A TOASER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND A COOKIE WITH MILK SOAGE
MILK!!!!!!!!!!AND A BUTT WITH POOP IN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prole-food by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-28 02:45 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Sod the proles!
I'm going to stuff my face with a four course meal at a posh restaurant tonight.
not new by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-28 02:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

this technique isn't new. maybe its a little more refined now, but i remember reading stories about this YEARS ago.

too lazy to prove this though...
Re:Sounds like rubbish by Mr2cents · 2004-01-28 02:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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?

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Re:Old news and incorrect data by cerberusss · 2004-01-28 07:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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!
...
Oh, wait...
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