July 26th, 2011

Solve Media Is CAPTCHA-ing 620K Type-In Ads A Day

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Ads are everywhere: They’re in our content, they’re online and offline, they’re on buses, billboards, and more. I’ve been told just to “get used to it” — that the advertising proliferation is only going to continue — so I’m thinking of selling some space on my forehead. Might as well take advantage. Of course, those who are successful in digital advertising are generally those who can find these… → Read More

June 19th, 2009

AT&T iPhone order status update all f#*&ed up

Avert your gaze! AT&T’s website served up a CAPTCHA image containing the F-word. The F-word! → Read More

May 12th, 2009

D-Link adds CAPTCHA to routers: We say "swvm doghorse"

D-Link has added CAPTCHA confirmations to some of their routers, ensuring that the entity trying to log into your super router is a human and not an animal or robot.

For those not in the know, CAPTCHA is essentially a challenge-response test that separates robots from humans. If you’ve ever seen those squiggly graphics you sometimes have to type in to confirm a web-form submission, you’ve seen a… → Read More

March 14th, 2008

Google not sure if Gmail's captcha has been broken, could just be hired guns doing the cracking

[photopress:gmailcaptcha.jpg,full,center] Google doesn’t believe that Gmail’s captcha, those little picture things you have to fill out before signing up for a service, have been cracked just yet. There’s been whispers here and there recently suggesting that hackers may have figured out the algorithm used by Gmail, which would ultimately lead to a hell of a lot of spam coming… → Read More