And, yes, what I suggested here was almost exactly what you described. But I was wondering whether botnet (or whatever mechanism) latency could be made low enough to give such a captcha site an air of legitimacy.
It's hard to imagine what issues will become important nowadays... For example: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38913/ http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38913/page2/ or http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=38913 -- Raul On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]> wrote: >> That this is listed as a "major event" is indicative. (The CAPTCHA >> strategy is easily defeated: run a website to get humans to do the >> test; etc.) > > Hmm... now that you mention it, I wonder if any countries host > "anti-captcha" sites -- sites which appear to be implementing some > kind of captcha but which hijack their images from genuine captcha > sites (perhaps with minor manipulations) and use the resulting > opportunities maliciously. > > -- > Raul > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
