Google's Audio CAPTCHA Falls To Automated Attack 145
SkiifGeek writes "Early in March, Wintercore Labs published proof of a generic approach to defeating audio CAPTCHAs, using Google's as the case study for their demonstration. With claims of over 90% success rate and expectations that this can be significantly improved with the right mix of filtering algorithms, the in-house tool remains unreleased. But it shouldn't take long for other developers to create their own tools and start targeting not only Google, but other sites that use audio CAPTCHAs for the vision-impaired. It isn't the first time that major sites (significantly major webmail providers) have had their CAPTCHAs broken, but it is the first reporting of defeating an audio CAPTCHA using a generic software approach. News about the discovery is slowly starting to spread."
Solving CAPTCHAs is a waste of time (Score:3, Insightful)
Basically I think the arms race is already over, and a new paradigms is needed,
Re:probably borrowing from IVR technology (Score:3, Insightful)
If your audio captcha reads each letter one at a time, then your "IVR" only has to be able to distinguish 26 sounds (36 if you have digits too).
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Re:More easier to detect a bot (Score:2, Insightful)