via a post from BoingBoing from 2004,

Spammers have come up with a brilliant way to defeat the ‘captcha’ distorted-word test that prevents spamming bots from signing up for free email accounts or posting to blogs: leverage the masses of users on the internet looking for free porn. Spammers set up free porn sites where users have to solve a captcha to enter, then that solution is fed through to the bot signing up for free email accounts.

This is like the evil spammer version of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk project (earlier SmartMobs post), which the website describes as ‘artificial artificial intelligence.’

(Thanks Luke)

via a post from BoingBoing from 2004,

Spammers have come up with a brilliant way to defeat the ‘captcha’ distorted-word test that prevents spamming bots from signing up for free email accounts or posting to blogs: leverage the masses of users on the internet looking for free porn. Spammers set up free porn sites where [...]