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CAPTCHA Busted? Company Claims To Have Broken Protection System

Posted by samzenpus on from the spell-this dept.

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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  1. 90% by WillgasM · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's better than my success rate

    1. Re:90% by nospam007 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "That's better than my success rate"

      Same here, but some overdo it with the use. My phone company uses it on the payment page where you have to enter the invoice number and credit card.

      Are they afraid some bot would pay my bills?

  2. New security system ? by Lennie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sorry, but I don't consider CAPTCHA a security system.

    I would say it's an anti-spam system.

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    New things are always on the horizon
  3. Re:Better than humans by meerling · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Agreed. Heck, even those spammers that for years have been collecting databases of solved captchas for their bots do much better at those damn things than I do.
    And what really pisses me off is when you get a captcha wrong, either through incorrect entry or because it's decided you took to long, and the damn thing wipes out all the fields forcing you to redo the entire page! Those sites I truly despise I hope their programmers/scripters get a horrible infestation of something nasty.