Yahoo CAPTCHA Hacked 252
Hell Yeah! reminds us of a 2-week-old development that somehow escaped notice here. A team of Russian hackers has found a way to decipher a Yahoo CAPTCHA, thought to be one of the most difficult, with 35% accuracy. The Russian group's notice, posted by one "John Wane," is dated January 16. This site hosts a rapidshare link to what looks to be demonstration software for Windows, and quotes the Russian researchers: "It's not necessary to achieve high degree of accuracy when designing automated recognition software. The accuracy of 15% is enough when attacker is able to run 100,000 tries per day, taking into the consideration the price of not automated recognition — one cent per one CAPTCHA."
I thought those things were already broken (Score:5, Funny)
Hey (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Gentlemen, start your spambots (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Malware (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I thought those things were already broken (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Malware (Score:2, Funny)
Jumping without a chord would be no fun at all.
Re:Gentlemen, start your spambots (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, that would solve the problem until someone developed an automated program to check spelling and grammar, which I'm sure is near-imposible. (By the way, does anyone know why there's a red line under that last word? Is my screen screwed up?)
Re:Gentlemen, start your spambots (Score:3, Funny)
kthxby
Re:Gentlemen, start your spambots (Score:2, Funny)
Re: Imposible red lining. (Score:2, Funny)
The key is to never type faster than your brains alpha rhythm. Otherwise, you slide into a meditative zone known as 'T-pool bimbo limbo'. On the other hand, I've generally found typists to be saner than managers, so maybe the mediative zone is a defense mechanism. The frontal cortex contemplates what's for dinner tonight while some low reptilian region recognizes scrawled letters and types them.
Which leads back to the main topic.
What is the lowest animal life that could be trained to log into Yahoo?
Re:Gentlemen, start your spambots (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I thought those things were already broken (Score:3, Funny)
Posting on
Re:I thought those things were already broken (Score:4, Funny)