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Re: captcha this
From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:54:09 +0200
der Mouse wrote:
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.
Quite a bit of resistance to the user, though. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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