arstechnica.com — Needing only six seconds per attempt, and with a success rate of 10-15 percent, new anti-CAPTCHA bots are dismantling fraud protection systems at Gmail and Windows Live Hotmail, and they are flooding the tubes with spam. Is CAPTCHA finished?
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krpanoApr 16, 2008
ffs...its useless.Forget the spammers, go for those hiring them.Get one s**t spammer, waterboard him....im sure the nerd will crack in a few seconds.
richarddavidleeApr 16, 2008
The answer to this problem is that every one must sit a full turing test, holding an active conversation with the website until it is convinced you are human.I never though I would see the day that I had to start arguing with my pc to let me use it, and now as I look back, I can see that day already came a long time ago, and i didn't even notice it.p.s. on submitting this first time I just got the "Oops, CAPTCHA appears to be invalid...",Argh!
xiugraagApr 16, 2008
Give it a week if it would be used by Gmail or Live...
wxdotzApr 16, 2008
Dugg just because I laughed for a good few minutes picturing kittens and boolean operations... I think I've read Digg too much.
masterspyApr 18, 2008
6 seconds for a 10-15% success rate is quite impressive. Good, the captchas were starting to get pretty damn annoying, maybe this will force everyone to get on a better system. Who would have thought that the major breakthroughs in visual recognition for artificial intelligence would come out of organized crime? Can we say Spammers have too much time on their hands to f**k with the lives of the rest of the tubez users? Next we'll have to fingerprint everybody to log in, register, check email, post a comment, and probably even check porn.. wtf people. I am all for public executions of people stupid enough to believe that a Nigerian prince is going to give them money. ReCaptcha is actually going into effect very soon.
technoidatxApr 29, 2008
he took latent fingerprints from a glass, which he enhanced with a cyanoacrylate adhesive (super-glue fumes) and photographed with a digital camera. Using PhotoShop, he improved the contrast of the image and printed the fingerprint onto a transparency sheet.Here comes the clever bit.Matsumoto took a photo-sensitive printed-circuit board (which can be found in many electronic hobby shops) and used the fingerprint transparency to etch the fingerprint into the copper.From this he made a gelatine finger using the print on the PCB, using the same process as before. Again this fooled fingerprint detectors about 80 per cent of the time.Your right! That is so much easier than stealing a number.