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Google ReCAPTCHA Cracked
stormdesign writes "Despite denials from Google, a security researcher continues to assert that the Search King's reCAPTCHA system for protecting Web sites from spammers can be successfully exploited by Internet junk mail panderers."
Look, all you have do to confirm it is just google for "most popular search engine"...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
There isn't a spambot alive who could answer "In the above movie, how many cocks were inside Jenna Jameson?" or "what sex position is this?"
Six and the Arabian spinecracker.
You could just hire people from /. to solve captcha porn.
They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. - Terry Pratchett
This wouldn't be that hard to do. Spammers hit government addresses like anything else. Hit the purveyors of the product, the people who hire the spammers, with a nasty "kill your business for good" level fine for every product that goes out in a spamming campaign - problem solved, none of these guys will ever be so stupid as to hire a spammer again.
Yes, but they will hire spammers for a different reason. To advertise their competitor's product, in order to nuke the competition. Then once the competition is gone, sales will increase, and they can boost prices
they have a marketable skill: English language ability.
What Indian tech support have YOU been talking to?!
Steve from Kansas.
Apparently he really likes curry chicken. Kinda odd fellow.