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+-   Gmail Captcha Cracked-> on Tuesday February 26 2008, @07:27PM I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property

Submitted by I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property on Tuesday February 26 2008, @07:27PM
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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 time out message."
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