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The Captcha is dead – MySpace to follow

 Markus is plainly a guy who gets it.  I trust his evaluation, and will watch MySpace closely over the next few weeks (or less).  There was some clue that this could happen back in July. 

I assume that if Myspace doesn’t come up with a response soon it will decline quickly.

Source: The Captcha is dead. « The Paradigm Shift

Relevance to Bankwatch:

Social networks have to be trusted.  Part of the implementation has to account for ‘bad guys’ trying to implement old thinking on a new idea.

Kudo’s to Matt and his WordPress team for his exemplary work in this space.

 

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Written by Colin Henderson

Sunday, 26 November 2006 at 16:57

Posted in Social networks

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  1. [...]  Since I picked up on Markus post the other day, there seems to be a fair bit of interest in this topic.  CAPTCHA are those things that require you to read and re-type some mixed up characters.  This is intended to validate that you are in fact a person trying to comment on a blog, and not a spambot. [...]

    CAPTCHA, Spam, and Banks’ responsibilities « Bankwatch

    Wednesday, 29 November 2006 at 20:12

  2. Myspace makes me very angry, oh no, it is not Myspace, maybe the spammers

    but I think captcha between site admin and spammers is endless

    recently I can even find a group who declaimed they have bypassed myspace’s captcha system, damn

    if you do not believe it, you can check it here

    http://byebyecaptcha.com

    dazee

    Wednesday, 5 March 2008 at 07:25

  3. CAPTCHA is ruining Myspace. I wrote a post about it about 2 months ago. Alot of people have come to me and asked what we can do about getting something done about it. If you want to help out please feel free to do so.

    http://blog.jericosystems.com/2008/03/08/captcha-codes-are-they-ruining-myspace/#comment-24784

    robin

    Friday, 30 May 2008 at 21:24


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