Snapchat Account Registration CAPTCHA Defeated

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 23, 2014 @08:59AM from the take-a-picture-it'll-last-longer dept.

hypnosec writes "Snapchat's security troubles continue as a security researcher has managed to hack its account registration CAPTCHA system with a program of less than 100 lines that took 30 minutes to develop. Steve Hickson, a computer engineer by education, wrote a small computer program with very little effort that identifies Snapchat's ghost from the given set of images. Hickson equates Snapchat's ghost very particular and calls it a template that can be matched easily using a computer program. Hickson used a combination of Open Source Computer Vision Library (OpenCV), SURF points and FLANN matching "with a uniqueness test to determine that multiple keypoints in the training image weren't being singularly matched in the testing image.""

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Need by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-23 09:03 · Score: 5, Insightful

I need this code because half the time I can't figure out what the capture characters are myself.
Not a few lines of code - by Anonymous Coward · 2014-01-23 09:26 · Score: 4, Insightful

uses 3 well developed source libraries
after the hack, something odd happened... by Connie_Lingus · 2014-01-23 09:43 · Score: 4, Funny

...Mr. Hickson disappeared after 10 seconds.

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