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Story: Spammers use free porn to bypass Hotmail protection

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Posted by: Pleekmo (Friday 7 May 2004, 12:32 PM)

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It would appear that the bot here would not be able to tell the difference between a correct entry for the CAPTCHA and an incorrect one. So start inputting incorrect responses to foil spammers. Until they begin to test for the correctness of the CAPTCHA response...

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