Amusing (albeit off-topic) captcha story, reposted from my blog
I was talking with somebody about captcha arms race at work today and heard the most brilliant scam. Apparently spammers who are attempting to spam to captcha-enabled sites screen-grab the captcha image and then turn around and serve the same image as a captchato fake/spammy porn sites they run. So the real people trying to get in to the porn site do the captcha computation for the spammers, who then automatically feed the results back in to the original site. They are tapping into the inexhaustible queue of pending porn-hounds to get through legitimate site defenses. For some reason, the beauty of this completely made my week. On Jun 03, 2010, at 02:32 PM, Keith Edmunds <k...@midnighthax.com> wrote: On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:33:34 +1200, craig.misk...@opus.co.nz said:
from a slightly difficult to read text image
CAPTCHAs have got to the stage where they are easier for computers to read than they are for humans to read. My wife's phpBB had a CAPTCHA and was forever getting spammed; now we have a textual question and the spamming has stopped. I agree: putting barriers in the way of people reporting bugs means fewer bug reports. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
