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Spam with captcha

Ivan | Thu, 2006-05-04 11:38

I have a clients site with captcha enabled. Still we get spam on the site. How on earth is that possible? Does this mean, somebody, a human actually posts comments manually or the freakin' spam robots are programmed to OCR the captcha images and post spam? God, I hate spammers.

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arvana | Thu, 2006-05-04 20:43

There are definitely some captcha OCR readers (like this one), and there's even a scheme in which the captcha image is copied onto a porn site and is human-decoded. You may hate spammers, but you've gotta admire their craftiness! ;-)

I've seen some pretty ingenious captcha-type systems. One that makes me smile is KittenAuth -- you have to click the kittens to get in.

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Anonymous | Fri, 2006-05-05 10:10

Thanks arvana. I once found this link and then lost it. Now I have it back. ;-)

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arvana | Sun, 2006-07-16 14:51

Just discovered a new one as well:

http://hotcaptcha.com/

You have to pick out the good looking people to get access.

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mck | Sun, 2006-07-16 18:16

These guys have a really fucked up idea of what "good looking" people are. Out of three tries only one validated.

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arvana | Mon, 2006-07-17 15:36

Well it uses HotOrNot's API, so it's based on public opinion. More accurately, it could say "pick the young slim people with streaks in their hair" instead!

I do really well with the women, not so well with the men.... I guess you need to choose the gender you're attracted to! ;-)

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mck | Tue, 2006-07-18 15:31

Actually I only tried women, but still...

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