The Death of googles Recaptcha as we know it?
ladylov...@yahoo.com
I think someone on googles spam team should be aware of this. There is
a cheap software called Captcha Sniper that is suppose to solve all
the captchas a spammer could dream of for virtually free! Supposedly,
they are gonna have it solving recaptcha OCR at a 70% solve rate,
which would make using recaptcha on websites pointless!
Its already pretty popular on spammer forums. If recaptcha dosen't
update its system, I do beleive the net is gonna DROWN in spam
attacks! Please take a look at this software and stop it before it can
do any more damage!
You can check out the software here http://captchasniper.com/. Also,
just do a search in the SE, there are many spammer forums that are
selling as well and its pretty popular by now.
I'm afraid recaptcha won't be very effective if they release a
recaptcha update. I do beleive google can stop it before it even gets
to that point by updating there programs before the coders on the
spammers end gets a chance to figure it out!
Thanks for listening!
Jerry Hollombe
On 12/15/2011 5:41 PM, ladylov...@yahoo.com wrote:
> You can check out the software here http://captchasniper.com/. ...
Check out what? It's a one page web site that does some bragging with
nothing to back it up. There isn't even a place to purchase or download
the program. Anyone could put up something like that.
Every now and then some troll posts to this forum telling us that
reCAPTCHA has been cracked and we all may as well give up and go home.
None of those posts has been true to date.
Here's a thought: If someone really had written software that solved
the OCR problem reCAPTCHA is designed to solve, they could make a lot
more money and be legitimately famous by patenting the code and selling
it to all the legitimate concerns that have desperate need for it.
This looks like more idle trolling by someone with too much time on
their hands.
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dafydd
fake messages a week. If reCAPTCHA has an auditing facility somewhere,
I'd be happy to start data gathering for the developers...
dafydd
Jerry Hollombe
On 12/21/2011 3:18 PM, dafydd wrote:
> Well, my reCAPTCHA installation has been cracked to the tune of 1-4
> fake messages a week. If reCAPTCHA has an auditing facility somewhere,
> I'd be happy to start data gathering for the developers...
1-4 messages/week is trivial. ReCAPTCHA is blocking hundreds of spams
per day on my site, which is relatively unpopular and doesn't get much
traffic. The few spams that do get past reCAPTCHA are blocked by my
other spam filters.
You're probably getting hits from human spammers using software that can
see your hidden fields. By definition, there's nothing reCAPTCHA, or
any CAPTCHA, can do about that. You have to create and use your own
spam filters to reject the messages reCAPTCHA can't block. It's not
hard to do and very effective after a few weeks of tuning to recognize
the spams you get.