Comments on: CAPTCHA: The Broken Token http://bbspam.com/2007/08/15/captcha-the-broken-token/ Stories from the web spam fighters Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:36:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Dan http://bbspam.com/2007/08/15/captcha-the-broken-token/#comment-265 Dan Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:44:56 +0000 http://bbspam.com/2007/08/15/captcha-the-broken-token/#comment-265 <a href="http://www.amirharel.com/2008/03/captcha-is-broken_22.html" rel="nofollow">Amir Harel wrote in his blog</a> an interesting theory about the collective computation that zombies has to their disposal in order to break captchas. If thats true then its only a matter of time until the captcha will be useless. Amir Harel wrote in his blog an interesting theory about the collective computation that zombies has to their disposal in order to break captchas. If thats true then its only a matter of time until the captcha will be useless.

]]> By: Zap Branigan http://bbspam.com/2007/08/15/captcha-the-broken-token/#comment-256 Zap Branigan Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:08:21 +0000 http://bbspam.com/2007/08/15/captcha-the-broken-token/#comment-256 It costs more than $50. To tailor a breaker to a particular captcha takes a bit of work. Depending on how much worth someone assigns their time it is far more than $50 of grunt work. Anyone doing it for $50 or less is scrambling at pennies and thus must not be from Europe or North America. Also there are free captcha OCR tools out there: http://churchturing.org/captcha-dist/ It costs more than $50. To tailor a breaker to a particular captcha takes a bit of work. Depending on how much worth someone assigns their time it is far more than $50 of grunt work. Anyone doing it for $50 or less is scrambling at pennies and thus must not be from Europe or North America.

Also there are free captcha OCR tools out there:

http://churchturing.org/captcha-dist/

]]> By: Dancho Danchev - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge http://bbspam.com/2007/08/15/captcha-the-broken-token/#comment-37 Dancho Danchev - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge Sun, 09 Sep 2007 02:45:35 +0000 http://bbspam.com/2007/08/15/captcha-the-broken-token/#comment-37 <strong> Spammers and Phishers Breaking CAPTCHAs...</strong> Interesting reading on the big picture too - CAPTCHA - The Broken Token... Spammers and Phishers Breaking CAPTCHAs…

Interesting reading on the big picture too - CAPTCHA - The Broken Token…

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