[Mediawiki-l] more spam issues

[2007 at gmaskfx.com]

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 <b0ef at esben-stien.name> wrote:

> From: Esben Stien <b0ef at esben-stien.name>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] more spam issues
> To: "MediaWiki announcements and site admin list" <mediawiki-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: 2007 at gmaskfx.com
> Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 5:53 PM
> Angela <beesley at gmail.com>
> 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?. 
> 
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