every time, in under 1 second. This is no human, and it's no
retries.
I can think of any way that could happen unless the service itself has
been broken, legitimately or through some flaw.
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Benjamin Lees <emufarmers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Dan Kohn
<dan(a)dankohn.com> wrote:
So, it looks like someone has programmed a
MediaWiki/ConfirmEdit-focused spambot that can defeat SimpleCatcha
(simple math problems) and -- shockingly -- ReCaptcha. But not that
they're using human beings to do the spamming. So, QuestyCaptcha, for
now, still works well.
It's not really that shocking: reCAPTCHA isn't different from any
other CAPTCHA, and even if a bot can only get it right 1% of the time,
it can generally try new images until it gets one right.
I actually don't think there's any guarantee that it's not humans
solving the CAPTCHAs: spammers could well be farming it out to humans
and have just not yet added the infrastructure to support
question-based CAPTCHAs (which are a rather small segment of the
market and are more site-specific).
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:49 AM, 2007(a)gmaskfx.com <2007(a)gmaskfx.com> wrote:
Just wait.. the technology behind IBM's
Watson will end up in the hands of spammers and then there'll be no stopping the spam
;-)
Funny, I had the same thought. The good news is that we'll have
Watson-like ClueBots detecting and reverting spam by that point. In
the end, it will just be machines engaged in an automated edit war.
:-)
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