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Now Google's CAPTCHA Is Broken

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the throw-it-on-the-pile dept.

steveit_is writes "Yesterday it was reported that Microsoft's revised CAPTCHA had been cracked. Now it's Google's turn. In a move that is sure to surprise no one, the spammers behind 'Xrumer' have announced that they've not only cracked Google's CAPTCHA, but other forms of image verification as well, including 'pick the cat' style CAPTCHA."

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  1. Re:Why by spiffmastercow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    aren't these guys in jail?

    I think the real question is: why are these people not working in research institutes? Image recognition is a hard problem. It's baffling that someone with that kind of talent would be working for spammers instead of in a tenured university position.

  2. Re:My test: by Tx · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Captcha is a joke. They're become so difficult to read that I can't even decipher what it means!"

    I hear that. I was trying to complete one the other day, and honestly, I was only making educated guesses as to what the characters were, it took me three or four attempts. If they get any tougher, the only people who'll be able to do them will be the spammers using this kind of software!

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