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Google Using ReCAPTCHA To Decode Street Addresses

Posted by timothy on from the you-are-the-crowd-being-sourced dept.

smolloy writes "Apparently some users of reCAPTCHA have recently begun seeing photographs appear in their CAPTCHA puzzles — photos that look very much like zoomed in house numbers taken from Google Streetview. It appears that Google has decided to put the reCAPTCHA system to help clean up Google streetview images, and 'according to a Google spokesperson, the system isn't limited to street addresses, but also involves street names and even traffic signs.' A large collection of these has appeared on the Blackhatworld website."

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  1. Be a Roman harlot instead! by AliasMarlowe · · Score: 5, Funny

    And put your house number in Roman Numerals. Nothing like living in number CLXXIV to screw up the recaptcha. Anyone answering with 174 is likely counted as wrong...

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    Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
    1. Re:Be a Roman harlot instead! by gnick · · Score: 3, Funny

      And put your house number in Roman Numerals. Nothing like living in number CLXXIV to screw up the recaptcha.

      Not to mention the postal service! Damn snooty mailmen with their eagle-logo cars and fancy uniforms... Now I know how to get back at them.

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  2. Re:This is actually kind of frightening... by medlefsen · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh shit
    http://www.whitepages.com/