Re: captcha this

[der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca>]

> I [...] saved a few captcha images, and then ran Omnipage (an OCR
> program) on the captcha images.  The OCR program had little
> difficulty [...].  Net, net - it would seem that image captchas offer
> little resistance to a dedicated hacker.

I'd say, offer little resistance to almost anyone; you hardly need to
be a dedicated hacker to run an OCR program.

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