On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:59:52 +0200 Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 09:50 -0400, Mills, Charles wrote:
I think if such a thing would exist, the "verification" gifs to prevent automated free yahoo and hotmail account signups would be defeated as well.
You mean Captcha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha)
Which is not so much of an issue: http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/
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