>>>>>I have type 6 times now the funky graphic letters for security access on my google account, but they are so freaking hard to read I haven't gotten them right yet. I guess that's a good thing, but should they be that hard to read?
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>>>>According to article
http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Blogs/2919.aspx, the Google CAPTCHA has been broken by hackers with 20% success.
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>>>Well, then I want the software they're using to do it.
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>>You'll need access to a CAPTCHA breaking host then....there's actually servers that do nuttin but break CAPTCHA - I *think* the concept is a BOT network (prolly the STORM one or a piece of it) captures a bunch of these as unsuspecting users enter good ones, then the CAPTCHA breaking host has some algorithms that attempt to match up the image with those the BOT network has cataloged.
>>I notice a lot of these websites that use the CAPTCHA have a little button you can use to play and audio clip of what's in the image - does Google have such a thing?
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>I didn't see that.
Well Google may not do that - seems like a bad idea for security reasons anyway. I know what you mean by them being hard to read though - often times on websites that use this I'll hit 'refresh' a few times until I get one that I can read easily.
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