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Re: CAPTCHA captchas decode old books ..

____/ Doug Mentohl on Tuesday 02 October 2007 11:14 : \____

> This is the first step in the Architect enslaving us to the Matrix ..
> 
> "A weapon used to fight spammers is now helping university researchers
> preserve old books and manuscripts"
> 
> 'The test, known as a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell
> Computers and Humans Apart), was originally designed at Carnegie Mellon
> to help to keep out automated programs known as "bots."'
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7023627.stm

These bots are not necessarily a horse of compromised Microsoft Windows PCs. A
Perl script might be sufficient to establish what's needed. So by 'bots' here
they refer to an automated task as opposed to a DDOS-like operation. That
said, many CAPTCHA hacking methods are used by spammers to contaminate the
Web. The spammers find zombie Microsoft Windows PCs very attractive because
they serve as a dedicated proxy and make it harder to track down the criminal.

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