From: "F. Senault" <fred@...>
Date: 2009-03-13T19:48:00+09:00
Subject: Re: How to read a charecters from and image?

Le 13 mars � 11:16, Robert Dober a �crit :

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Clifford Heath <no@spam.please.net> wrote:
>>
>> No, it's a trivial problem. Display the image on a webpage somewhere
>> and offer porn for a human if they decode it for you. They don't need
>> to know that the captcha is for a 3rd-party site.
> which will have changed in the meantime, right? (I hope)

It's automated.  A porn site shows the captcha to access its pages, the
unsuspecting user posts the answer to get his smut, and a spambot behind
sends the answer to the original captcha, and posts its spam message in
the comments of the blog or registers its new email account to use in
spamming.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023_3-5207290.html

This being said, we're way off topic, here.

Fred
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