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From: "Gary Funck" <gary () intrepid com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:41:45 -0800


Speaking of captchas, I experimented a bit, and saved a few captcha
images, and then ran Omnipage (an OCR program) on the captcha images.
The OCR program had little difficulty decoding the captchas that I
fed it, though I did find that it sometimes wanted to add a spurious
punctuation mark (like a period) at the end.  Net, net - it would
seem that image captchas offer little resistance to a dedicated
hacker.

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