Captcha
 

So Captcha was broken by some Russian hackers or some shit:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?no.../01/30/0037254

I also recently saw an interview where a guy said he inadvertantly made a Winamp visualazations plug-in that is being used to crack audio Captcha.

So I've been pushin our Website Lady here to put Captcha on our websites' webforms that are constantly getting tons of spam pushed through them on to my and several other machines. :mad:

Is it pointless now? Is there another method emerging that we could implement?

CAPTCHA is a test catagory. Not a specific format. The most common CAPTCHA today is the wavy text you see on some sites. The link you posted refers to the CAPTCHA that Yahoo! uses to test for bots.

This does not mean all CATCHA tests are broken.

There is some clever thinking on both sides of the problem.

Porn guys use live people looking at porn to decode CAPTCHA images from a Yahoo! account being created realtime. Then use the Yahoo! account to spam or sell to spammers.

I think it would help if Yahoo! put a message into the image so the porn lookies would at least get an idea of what's going on.

yeah, and the article states that its only fifteen percent effective. But with an unlimited number of tries it eventually gets through. You could always implement a captcha that allows three tries per ip per 15 minutes or something.

I think it would be worthwhile for your site still.

Good idea. I'll have to suggest that, but I've been pushing for it for months and it keeps getting delayed due to technical difficulties. :roll: