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Gmail CAPTCHA Cracked

Posted by kdawson on from the like-dominos dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Websense is reporting that Gmail's CAPTCHA has been broken, and that bots are beginning to sign up with a one in five success rate. More interestingly, they have a lot of technical details about how the botnet members coordinate with two different computers during the process. They believe that the second host is either trying to learn to crack the CAPTCHA or that it's a quality check of some sort. Curiously, the bots pretend to read the help information while breaking the CAPTCHA, probably to prevent Google from giving them a timeout message."

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  1. Time to ban Microsoft products by Scareduck · · Score: 0, Redundant

    from direct access to the Internets. The only secure MS machine is one with its Ethernet plug removed.

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  2. Re:CAPTCHA is for weak minds by Mr2001 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That raises an interesting idea... why not use the capchas to perform some useful work? Example... display a scanned line of text from a project that needs a large volume of text OCR'd for free/cheap. Someone already beat you to it.
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  3. Re:CAPTCHA is for weak minds by cybernanga · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is already being done. Check out this BBC Story about an outfit called Re-Captcha

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  4. Oblig by oodaloop · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I, for one, welcome our help information-reading CAPTCHA-breaking bot overlords.

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  5. Re:One step closer... by gnick · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I get one step closer to getting my Turing machine. Self-reply to a dumb joke - So, sorry twice over. But, the nazis have directed me back on the proper course twice now... That should have read "I get one step closer to getting my machine capable of passing the Turing test."

    Although, props to the AC that pointed out that a machine that could pass the Turing test would be smart enough not to befriend me. ;-)
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  6. Re:i work with OCR/ICR technology by atmurray · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "It was the best of times, it was the BLURST of times!?! Stupid monkeys!"