Porn Rewards Users To Get Past Anti-Spam Captchas 420
Stalke writes "Spammers are now usings a new technique to circumvent the 'captchas,' the distorted text in graphics, that users must input to receive the free email account. The spammers have cracked the system by displaying the 'captchas' on free porn sites in real time. Since there are always a large number of people signing up for free porn, they do the work of decripting the 'captchas' which is then replayed back into the spammers program to create a new email account. Who thought that porn could be a hacking technique!" Sure sounds plausible, though the link here says only "someone told me."
I am not looking at porn (Score:5, Funny)
Nifty (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Easy fix (Score:2, Funny)
Proof! (Score:5, Funny)
Proof once again that porn (and it's usually associated activities... ahem) will NOT make you go blind!
Re:Easy fix (Score:3, Funny)
Yeah, like that is really going to happen. The internet would crash if that happened. So many internet accouts would be caneceled that ISPs would go out of business. It would be the doom of the internet.
good or evil (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Foundation (Score:5, Funny)
And several uses that we just don't WANT to imagine
Easy fix. (Score:4, Funny)
For your captcha, use a picture of a really ugly old woman with "click here to see more" written across it, and no one visiting a porn site will help with the decryption.
Re:Spam spam spam spam SPAAM! (Score:0, Funny)
I've heard of it too (Score:3, Funny)
In related news... (Score:5, Funny)
A million new Slashdot accounts were added today.
Re:Proof! (Score:5, Funny)
Human Grid Computing?! (Score:1, Funny)
It really is true (Score:5, Funny)
So porn is being used to break encryption. Personally, I feel there can be no other way. Porn will lead us to the greatest achievements of our day, and conversely, all roads lead to porn.
It's our past, our present, and our future. Embrace it, or be left behind.
Re:Spam spam spam spam SPAAM! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Sounds like rubbish (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Easy fix. (Score:2, Funny)
Margaret Thatcher naked on a cold day!
(Austin Powers reference)
Holy crap (Score:5, Funny)
Amazingly clever, those evil spamming bastards.
Re:Foundation (Score:5, Funny)
Agreed. It is an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us, penetrates us, and binds the galaxy together.
Hrmm...
Re:Foundation (Score:3, Funny)
Someone asked for a real example of this... (Score:4, Funny)
Click here to decode pr0n captcha [fastsilicon.com]
-JT
Re:Valid News Sources (Score:3, Funny)
"This just in...spammers are apparently using pron sites to help decrypt captchas."
Some nuts will find a conspiracy in everything.
"I would pat myself on my back" (Score:1, Funny)
I doubt it's the back...
Re:Valid News Sources (Score:2, Funny)
Who registers for porn? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Holy crap (Score:3, Funny)
And as for "heavy water", well, it may be heavy and liquid, but water it ain't...
Re:Foundation (Score:5, Funny)
It had to be said...
Imagine a beowulf cluster of porn viewers.
(Which is basically what this is)
The feeder bar approach (Score:5, Funny)
"Hey, I'm only seeing ugly people having sex!, guess I have to step up the quality of my work"
Re:Foundation (Score:5, Funny)
Sorry.
It's really true, I've seen them (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds patentable (Score:2, Funny)
The Meatrixator (Score:3, Funny)
Outsourcing (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Foundation (Score:5, Funny)
Well, one out of three ain't bad.
by analogy (Score:1, Funny)
So basically it's a Wanker Rotary Engine?
distributed.net for human brains (Score:2, Funny)
Hmm.. this could open a new world for Open Source (Score:3, Funny)
Submit a patch and you'll be rewarded with 5 minutes of unlimited access.
So, the people are being used as coprocessors? (Score:2, Funny)
How'd you like to have a job as a coprocessor? Is this the computer-age version of dehumanizing assembly line drones- soon people will sit in front of computers all day long handling the offloaded processing tasks computers are poor at handling?
Come to think of it, this is already going on a lot. Computers process all the transactions at most companies, but they have certain "flags" they catch that offload certain transactions-ones that are exceptional for some reason (complex, may involve fraud, etc)- for people to handle personally. I just hadn't thought of people as coprocessing drones handeling certain exceptions a computer program comes across and offloads for biological processing.
The matrix won't happen all at once with a war. It will creep up on us so we hardly notice it. We won't be subjugated, we'll volunteer.
-Phat Tony