On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 03:26:40PM +0200, Pars Mutaf wrote:
What if the CAPTCHA needs to be solved before the status can be seen?
That would work?
Nope. (Let me pause to note that there are a number of other problems
with this idea as well, I just didn't articulate those.)
The gap between "captcha which is difficult enough to defeat a program"
and "captcha which is easy enough to be solved by a human" has already
closed -- and even if it hadn't, spammers have numerous other techniques
available to them that scale reasonably well, including (a) captcha
replay and (b) mass cheap labor. So I think it's reasonable that if
it becomes advantageous to spammers to solve captchas en masse, they will.
---Rsk
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