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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 ;)

I've often heard about this potential flaw with captchas, but are  
there any recorded cases of this actually happening?

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