Is there a clever use for porn? - Oh yeah baby
Its not often that you bring both of these words together -clever and porn - but today I came across a posting on Read/Write Web (www.readwriteweb.com) that illustrates just this.
The contest spammers have come up with a very clever way of circumventing CAPTCHAs - and yes ? using porn.
How? Well they have linked their robots to a web page which provides the user with a visual of a woman who progressively reveals her clothing for every CAPTCHA that they complete. The cleverness is the fact that the CAPTCHA is being fed to the site from the robots which are encountering them on foreign sites. As the users complete the CAPTCHA test - the robots are able to give the right answer and continue forward.
Get the full details at the Read/Write Blog ? www.readwriteweb.com
(yeah, clever)...
Labels: programming, security
posted by Mark Daley at 20:06
2 Comments:
Latest manifestation of the axiom that porn is a major driver of innovation on the web. Also a great example of crowdsourcing at work. Someone give these people an award for extreme cleverness - I'd do it myself but I've got about a thousand forms I now need to redesign.
(And, for the record, I use the words "clever" and "porn" together as often as "tasty" and "food")
I'd like to say that I use "clever" and "porn" as often as you indicate - however I cannot claim such a practice ... maybe "cleaver" and "porn" - no wait... that's a topic for another blog ;)
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