Kitten captcha already broken?

[Martijn Dashorst]

http://agha.st/2008/10/xrumer-50a---google-captcha-cracked.php

Unfortunately we haven't done much with kitten captcha, and it seems
the russian hackers are faster than we.

Martijn

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[Charlie Dobbie]

The article states:

> Added the ability to recognize the captcha type as "click on image with
the cat"

Which is quite a way off from actually breaking it!

I personally hope KittenAuth survives their attacks for a while longer.  I
find it highly amusing that some very intelligent people spent a huge amount
of time developing ways to display characters in a form that humans could
still read but computers couldn't OCR, all in vain.  And then someone made a
mockery of all their efforts with pictures of baby animals.

I now insist on cuteness in all my security products.

Charlie.



2008/10/2 Martijn Dashorst <martijn.dashorst@...>

> http://agha.st/2008/10/xrumer-50a---google-captcha-cracked.php
>
> Unfortunately we haven't done much with kitten captcha, and it seems
> the russian hackers are faster than we.
>
> Martijn
>
> --
> Become a Wicket expert, learn from the best: http://wicketinaction.com
> Apache Wicket 1.3.4 is released
> Get it now: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.
>