[pchelpers] Re: News:Spammers beat new Microsoft CAPTCHA defences

Hi Ray,

As I recall, there is at least one online service that is able to
automatically identify pictures. So, I think CAPTCHA in general is
going to be a short-lived phenomenon.

Also, when you're paying people a few cents per hours in a third-workd
country to look at CAPTCHAs and type in the response, it is still
fairly cheap.

--Scott.

Monday, February 16, 2009, 7:49:20 PM, you wrote:

RP> I read quite a bit on Captcha breaking recently, and any of the ones 
RP> that rely on pictures of distorted letters just aren't working anymore.
RP> There are a couple of new methods that use pictures of animals like cats
RP> and dogs, and ask the user to select the pictures of just the cats, 
RP> which seems to work much better than the distorted letter method.

RP> I'm sure that there are other tests that would work as well.

>>> http://www.itpro.co.uk/609888/spammers-beat-new-microsoft-captcha-defences




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