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Old 01-23-2009, 01:24 PM
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Many Web sites use CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) technology to try to tell the bots from the people.

CAPTCHA's idea is simple enough. It presents users with an image showing an obfuscated string of letters that they must type in to get an e-mail or social networking account.

Unfortunately, beginning in early 2008, crackers started getting the better of the CAPTCHA systems. In short order, Yahoo Mail's, Gmail's and Hotmail's CAPTCHA defenses were cracked.

Then, adding insult to injury, the crackers started releasing their work in the form of do-it-yourself CAPTCHA cracking software that anyone could use.
IMO, Raises the question
Should we create a Web Security Forum?
You might have seen, I big on structuring data and use folders/subfolders or forums like
one would naturally do when outlining information in a report
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You mean adding a Web Security category under our security forums?
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that sounds right to me
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