Google ReCAPTCHA Cracked 211
stormdesign writes "Despite denials from Google, a security researcher continues to assert that the Search King's reCAPTCHA system for protecting Web sites from spammers can be successfully exploited by Internet junk mail panderers."
Theres only one weapon left in the arsenal (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Does this mean.... (Score:5, Insightful)
The problem is simple to solve though:
Spamming is profitable. That's why the spammers do it.
What we need is simple: we need to make Spamming unprofitable. (I almost said make Spam unprofitable, but I actually kinda like Hormel's product).
This wouldn't be that hard to do. Spammers hit government addresses like anything else. Hit the purveyors of the product, the people who hire the spammers, with a nasty "kill your business for good" level fine for every product that goes out in a spamming campaign - problem solved, none of these guys will ever be so stupid as to hire a spammer again.
That leaves the virus-purveyors and identity-theft types to deal with, true, but the bulk of the money spent on breaking CAPTCHA solutions and everything else comes from the spam-for-profit guys, so if we hit them first, the rest are more manageable.
Re:Captcha ZDR .... (Score:4, Insightful)
It's quite simple to stop that, implement a small none-standard part in your signup process. I put in an extra input text field named "askldjwla" with the text: [Enter "I am not a bot" here (without quotes)] and my spam has reduced to 0. Spammers target the large and easy, just don't be a part of that group.
Re:Captcha ZDR .... (Score:4, Insightful)
That might work for your vanity blog, but higher traffic sites are more valuable targets and as such attract greater efforts.
Re:"Search King" (Score:4, Insightful)
Just to make things interesting, I binged it (has bing been verbed yet?). ...
Well, it's a verb, but it's past tense of binge (as in drinking).