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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. not guilty buy reason of prosecutorial blunderage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&ct=us/2-0-1&fp=48e400dd5725ad5b&ei=3OnkSNrqKJPKywT45508&url=http%3A//www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/02/stevens.trial/&cid=1250196629&npp=POP&usg=AFQjCNGUNhlKFhi-DsroGfTzUTHVlVO6Iw

    we'll be seeing more&more of that. if you're not a party member, you won't even get/need a 'trial'.

  2. Re:Why by Tolorude · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Don't forget "Amok Time," a truely great episode of Star Trek (original Star Trek, the only real Star Trek).

  3. Re:Why by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They right image (and logic) recognition software

    That's ... um ... write.