How Hackers Listened Their Way Around Google's Recaptcha 101
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timothy
from the listen-to-what-the-flower-children-scream dept.
from the listen-to-what-the-flower-children-scream dept.
An anonymous reader writes with this story at Ars Technica: "Three self-taught hackers from the DC949 hacker collective managed to use a combination of techniques to beat ReCaptcha with 99.1% accuracy (better than most humans!)" In short, the hackers skipped the visual part of the Recaptcha system entirely, focusing on the audio alternative, which gave them a few convenient angles of attack. Google responded with changes to the system, but that doesn't minimize their accomplishment.
First! (Score:1, Funny)
Oh yeah! Not even a recaptcha to worry about!
"Better than most humans" (Score:5, Funny)
That's it! Make all users do a SERIES of incredibly hard recaptchas. Those who get too many correct are machines! Brilliant!
Re:Weakest Link (Score:5, Funny)
If they can solve captchas at 99% accuracy, I hope they develop a browser toolbar or plugin I can use.
they managed to correctly answer audio captcha? (Score:4, Funny)
I did once get an audio captcha that was almost solvable -- AFAICT, it was a conversation between C'thullu in his native tongue and Tom Waits responding in Aramaic, recorded in a crowded airport terminal that had lots of loudspeaker announcements.