[Was "Re: [Asrg] Its all over for Challenge Response", subject changed
as per posting guidelines. Mod.]
Jon Kyme wrote:
Jon Kyme responds:
This is all getting silly.
Numbers?
Actual exploit?
I say:
Does anyone still seriously doubt that spamming miscreants are using
third
party computers as their web, mail and DNS hosts? Jon? This is not a new
phenomenon anymore.
[many links snipped]
The point was about paying for puzzle solving with porn views.
I'm still unaware of the existence of an exploit or a good discussion of
the economics.
I'm not saying it's impossible, just currently in the realm of theory.
The original news article is here, you can probably contact the
journalist and ask:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03278/228349.stm
Matt McCay of W3C who wrote the draft on Turing tests, might help as well:
http://www.bestkungfu.com/archive/?id=257
Yakov
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Yakov Shafranovich / asrg <at> shaftek.org
SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc. / research <at> solidmatrix.com
"Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send" (Jon
Postel)
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