George, > So, cracking the Turing number is useless (if the system is > properly secured).
You are missing some history. You see, a couple of years ago people WERE making automated attacks. These attacks may have been useless; I certainly never heard of them succeeding in stealing anything by them. But the constant attacks were VERY irritating to all e-gold users (and, presumeably, wasted e-gold's system resources). The Turing numbers were instituted to stop the attacks, not to prevent them from being successful. Being able to do automated reading of the Turing numbers would have allowed the attacks to be resumed. Best, CCS ------- End of forwarded message ------- ------------------------------------------------------ - Virtual Phonecards - Instant Pin by Email - - Large Selection - Great Rates - - http://speedypin.com/phonecard/start.html?af=743 - ------------------------------------------------------ ************************************************** * Craig Spencer * * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ************************************************** --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
