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[yury at heavenspa.com]

I've got the porn site already built if you need a test bed -- lol..

yury
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hans Zaunere" <hans not junk at nyphp.com>
To: "NYPHP Talk" <talk at lists.nyphp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 11:00 AM
Subject: [nycphp-talk] OT: genius WAS: NEW PHundamentals Question



> > i knew SOMEONE would bring up OCR
> 
> That wasn't OCR. It's actually a very creative technique. As far as
I'm
> aware, Yahoo was the first one that was attacked with this method.
Rasmus
> was talking about it at ApacheCon.

"The ingenious crack is to offer a free porn site which requires that
you key in the solution to a captcha -- which has been inlined from
Yahoo or Hotmail -- before you can gain access. Free porn sites attract
lots of users around the clock, and the spammers were able to generate
captcha solutions fast enough to create as many throw-away email
accounts as they wanted."

Really, that is genius.  Almost kind of makes me to join force with
spammers... *duck* - it's certainly more clever than anything Norton or
McAfee have come up with  :)  

> Maybe this would make a nice NYPHP demo? :-) Complete with porn?

Sure... a PHundamentals called:  "Gotchas with Captchas"  :)

H

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