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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.
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