Somebody is paying people in India to sit aroudn and solve them.. http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2008/09/captchas-flummox-bots-but-may-be-doomed-by-captcha-farmers.ars
--- On Mon, 7/13/09, Esben Stien <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Esben Stien <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues > To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" > <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 5:53 PM > Angela <[email protected]> > writes: > > > FancyCaptchas do not help - they're solving these > too. > > You mean a bot is able to bypass your FancyCaptchas?. I > find that hard > to believe. Isn't this algorithm random?. > > -- > Esben Stien is b...@e s > a > > http://www. s > t n m > irc://irc. b > - i . e/%23contact > > sip:b0ef@ e > e > > jid:b0ef@ n > n > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
