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[_] Activation e-mail || CAPTCHA ?

Christian Wach needle at haystack.co.uk
Mon Nov 12 10:42:38 GMT 2007

On 12 Nov 2007, at 10:32, Oliver Humpage wrote:

> NB Some robots get around captchas by getting to that stage of  
> registration,
> snaffling the captcha pic, posting it on a site that allows free  
> porn if the
> user will just type in the word, getting the word and sending it  
> back to the
> original site. Sneaky, and used a lot for creating fake hotmail,  
> aol, etc,
> accounts for signing up to sites that need auth emails ;)

*splutter*

Gotta hand it to them, that's inventive.