From: "Ryan Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Joe Emenaker wrote to jdow:
>
> > jdow wrote:
> >
> > > So what you should do is take any such email that comes in to an
> > > otherwise unknown address on your system and reply to it with a
> > > random letters password to poison the technique.
> >
> > This occurred to me back when I first heard that they were doing it...
> > but I figured that they were checking the captcha's in real time.
>
> >From my understanding, the email would probably just be a link to a free
> porn site, with some enticing copy. (Free porn probably isn't a tough
> sell). The site, in "setting up your free account" or somesuch, would
> (behind the scenes) open the connection to Hotmail or Yahoo, and get to
> the point of the CAPTCHA, which it would then embed in the page their
> unsuspecting free porn addict sees as part of the sign-up process. The
> site takes the response of the porn user, and sends it back to Hotmail
> or Yahoo, so they can create their account. It's real-time, and rather
> effective. Actually, it sounds like something I might come up with, if
> my hat were more than a few shades darker. :-)
So they'd have to be spoofed with something that would be an adaptation
of lynx. It would be a worthy hack.
{^_-}
