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Old 09-10-2011, 04:42 PM  
signupdamnit
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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear View Post
malicious affiliates can't read ?
I suspect that previous to using the captcha a trivial DoS attack might have been easier to carry out by simply signing up over and over again using various proxies and data to try to exhaust resources (such as available PIDs and the associated database). The captcha likely helps with this a bit.
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