Quote:
Originally posted by Rick Latona
You don't understand how the software works. It generates the image on the fly and pulls the word out of a huge database or randomly generates an alpha-numberic image.
They stop bots cold in their tracks. That's why Spam Arrest, Overture, etc. use them.
|
i have not seen one that can't be beaten. Its all about repetition. Even the smart big companies fail to figure this out sometimes.
Yahoo and msn,ouch , they literally make me laugh sometimes with security.
They make things so complicated they forget what they intended to secure and end up making something less secure than when it began..
i remeber when yahoo added picture authentication andsecure password resets , but failed to realise that when you added it all together you could reset and crack a username faster with the yahoo generated alphanumeric password generator than you could by running a dictionary file against a name, brute force style, and thats the whole reson they added the security to begin with