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Rhett Jones
CAPTCHA is evil and must be stopped. This much we know. Here’s another nail in the coffin of the universally-loathed authentication system: it turns out that despite being designed to stop automated processes, CAPTCHAs can actually be easily cracked with the right kind of computing power.
I have complained about CAPTCHA as a security measure many times around these parts, but that doesn’t stop some of the biggest players in the market continuing to use annoying and often unreadable CAPTCHA security (yes, I’m looking at you, Google, your CAPTCHA sucks to a level arguably only matched…
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