Gmail CAPTCHA Cracked

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 26, 2008 @03:21PM 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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Re:One step closer... by gnick · 2008-02-26 16:46 · 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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