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		joelthelion on June 14, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99... What are we going to do once all CAPTCHAS are completely broken?

neotek on June 15, 2012 [–]

CAPTCHAs are ultimately already completely broken - they don't really slow anyone down except ordinary users, because spammers are using human labour to solve CAPTCHAs at the rate of one or two dollars per thousand solved.

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