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Mourning CAPTCHA

July 17, 2008, 12:43

According to an article in ComputerWorld, CAPTCHA, a credible weapon against the legions of spammers has been broken.

With all three big free e-mail providers’ protection torn wide open with readily available toolkits, the threshold to engage in unfriendly practices on a massive scale is lower than before.

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