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Friday, January 25, 2008

CAPTCHA, HACKEDCHA, GOTCHA

The Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart security system, thankfully better known by the pseudo-acronym of CAPTCHA, has been well and truly cracked according to reports online. The system uses a set of alpha-numeric characters presented against a background which when combined make it all but impossible for a machine to decipher but easy enough for the human brain to be able to deal with. Or at least that was up until now if these reports are to be believed.
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Co-founder of IT Security Thing Ltd, Davey Winder is a three time winner of the Information Security Journalist of the Year award (2006/2008/2010) and received the prestigious Enigma Award for his lifetime contribution to information security journalism in 2011.



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