If you google this topic, you'll discover people in both the open source world and the academic world who have successfully developed systems for defeating captchas.
In fact, an automated captcha-defeat service may exist which offers its users a 2% success rate. There may be a company here in Santa Fe which uses such a service. It may also be possible to buy captcha-defeating source code which allegedly offers a roughly 50% success rate. And there may also be a company here in Santa Fe which is looking into purchasing such source code. Not that I would know... Captchas are already hard to use, and pretty soon they're also going to be easy to beat. (Statistical AI techniques, however, are easy to use, and hard to beat.) -- Giles Bowkett http://www.gilesgoatboy.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
