Gmail CAPTCHA Cracked 317
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Websense is reporting that Gmail's CAPTCHA has been broken, and that bots are beginning to sign up with a one in five success rate. More interestingly, they have a lot of technical details about how the botnet members coordinate with two different computers during the process. They believe that the second host is either trying to learn to crack the CAPTCHA or that it's a quality check of some sort. Curiously, the bots pretend to read the help information while breaking the CAPTCHA, probably to prevent Google from giving them a timeout message."
Bots RTFM! (Score:5, Funny)
CAPTCHA is for weak minds (Score:5, Funny)
Re:CAPTCHA is for weak minds (Score:2, Funny)
Good idea! Then all other email companies would hopefully follow suite dramatically then cutting down the forwarding of chain letters, viruses, stupid support calls, SPAM sales etc...
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
techno-ists! (Score:3, Funny)
The way I see it this is a step forward for human and robot relations. Women's rights, African-American Civil Rights Movement and now Robots rights!
Until one day... (Score:4, Funny)
Cue overlords posts in 3...2...1...
One step closer... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm tired of my imaginary friends running off and leaving me alone... I want one with configuration options.
Re:CAPTCHA is for weak minds (Score:3, Funny)
Re:techno-ists! (Score:3, Funny)
Live and learn, eh?
Re:Until one day... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:CAPTCHA is for weak minds (Score:3, Funny)
Damn! 1 in 5!? (Score:4, Funny)
That's better than I can do reading those damn things!!!
Re:Bots RTFM! (Score:5, Funny)
Are you sure? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:CAPTCHAs should die (Score:4, Funny)
Wow.
-Peter
Re:i work with OCR/ICR technology (Score:5, Funny)
Excellent Interview Question (Score:4, Funny)
If they do well with that question then you come at them with the followup: "OK, now say I want to lay off these 500 workers and have my service farm its work off to a distributed network of your grandmothers' compromised PCs. How would you design the messaging architecture and what sort of learning algorithm would you use?" Then maybe needle at them a bit about how the billing system works.
Re:One step closer... (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:i work with OCR/ICR technology (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stop using CAPTCHA! (Score:3, Funny)
Futurama to the rescue! (Score:5, Funny)
To prevent capture they dressed as robots, and were stopped at the city gates by two gate robots who administered a PuppyAuth-based anti-Turing test:
Re:Stop using CAPTCHA! (Score:5, Funny)
It's kinda like a honey pot, only with tasty, tasty honeys.
Re:Stop using CAPTCHA! (Score:5, Funny)
No, it's sad that a bunch of anime nerds think their captcha system guards a forum that any spammers would find worth caring about.
Re:Stop using CAPTCHA! (Score:4, Funny)
I live in Australia [slashdot.org] you insensitive clod!
Oh dear, I fear the slashdot porntcha (Score:3, Funny)
Porntcha slashdot style 1: Just how many libraries of congress would fit in this anus?
Porntcha slashdot style 2: How many girls can you see using this cup?
Porntcha slashdot style 3: What marine animal is this girl trying to emulate in the tub?
If you have no idea what images/movies these questions refer to, consider yourselve lucky.
Re:i work with OCR/ICR technology (Score:5, Funny)