{"id":198466,"date":"2007-11-07T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/07\/a-spammer-and-a-genius\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T00:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T05:02:00","slug":"a-spammer-and-a-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/07\/a-spammer-and-a-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spammer and A Genius"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/7067962.stm\">spammers are using sex to enlist human brain power to foil Captchas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a Captcha: <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img162.imageshack.us\/img162\/3563\/44205189striptrendmicrolp5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Basically, the spammers have, &#8220;created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an accompanying image&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Captcha comes from a site that uses them to prevent spam, Yahoo comes to mind as a prominent example.<\/p>\n<p>This is brilliant.  Evil, but brilliant.  If only this man could use his powers of technology and psychology for good, instead of evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that spammers are using sex to enlist human brain power to foil Captchas. This is a Captcha: Basically, the spammers have, &#8220;created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an accompanying image&#8221;. The Captcha comes from a site that uses &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1259,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-spam","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198466"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}