CAPTCHA Busted? Company Claims To Have Broken Protection System

sciencehabit writes "A software company called Vicarious claims to have created a computer algorithm that can solve CAPTCHA with greater than 90% accuracy. If true, the advance would represent a major breakthrough in artificial intelligence. It would also mean that the internet will have to start looking for a new security system. The problem, however, is that Vicarious has provided little evidence for its claims, though some well-known scientists are behind the work."

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Re:Better than humans

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That is really lazy work on the programmers part. It is trivial to use AJAX to submit the form and selectively wipe the captcha field whist refreshing the captcha. Thats what I do when we require a captcha for one reason or another.