The coming CAPTCHA crisis

For a long time we have come to rely on mechanisms such as CAPTCHA to hold spammers at bay. Should spammers ever succeed in breaking thorugh CAPTCHA a lot of social media web sites and blogs are going to have a big, big problem. Now, Virtual Blight reports that this is on the verge of happening.

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One Response to “The coming CAPTCHA crisis”

  1. Jason Says:
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    Man I just don’t see how anyone is gonna crack some of these captchas. Heck I can’t even read some of them myself and I’m not some OCR program, I’m a human being with good vision!

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