Stanford Program Decrypts Captchas, Spam Bots Inbound

[illumination]

You know those annoying boxes of jumbled, multicolored, slanted, crossed-out, or reversed text that are practically indecipherable to prove to a Website that you are human? They're called captchas, and a team of Stanford University researchers may have just completely debunked this text-based security system with a computer program than can decode them....
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[AyeAyeCaptain]

That's not good at all as said in the article/link you posted, 'But if these researchers can crack this anti-bot system, it is entirely possible someone else less reputable will figure it out too, and before long we’ll be inundated with spam and scams once again.' One can surely hope that they work together to strengthen the system they already have otherwise we'll be doomed with tons more spam which can only be a bad thing for us all.

 

[Nathan Wootton]

**sigh** Even tho i hate Captchas i'm glad they are there, lets hope the people who decoded them can work with them to make it stronger