____/ Doug Mentohl on Tuesday 02 October 2007 11:14 : \____

> This is the first step in the Architect enslaving us to the Matrix ..
>
> "A weapon used to fight spammers is now helping university researchers
> preserve old books and manuscripts"
>
> 'The test, known as a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell
> Computers and Humans Apart), was originally designed at Carnegie Mellon
> to help to keep out automated programs known as "bots."'
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7023627.stm

These bots are not necessarily a horse of compromised Microsoft Windows PCs. A
Perl script might be sufficient to establish what's needed. So by 'bots' here
they refer to an automated task as opposed to a DDOS-like operation. That
said, many CAPTCHA hacking methods are used by spammers to contaminate the
Web. The spammers find zombie Microsoft Windows PCs very attractive because
they serve as a dedicated proxy and make it harder to track down the criminal.

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Verily I say unto thee, that Doug Mentohl spake thusly:

> This is the first step in the Architect enslaving us to the Matrix ..
>
> "A weapon used to fight spammers is now helping university
> researchers preserve old books and manuscripts"
>
> 'The test, known as a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Turing Test To
> Tell Computers and Humans Apart), was originally designed at Carnegie
> Mellon to help to keep out automated programs known as "bots."'
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7023627.stm

Actually, this is a brilliant idea. Get the whole world to proof-read
OCRed old books using CAPTCHAs (or reCAPTCHAs, as they're calling them).

It certainly beats Microsoft's vision of the future of CAPTCHAs, which
was to just blatantly steal somebody else's idea:

http://www.seopher.com/articles/micr..._as_their_own_

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