Moving video to 'captcha' robot hackers

Tuesday, December 29, 2009 - 12:35 in Mathematics & Economics

We see the popular "captcha" security mechanism often ― wavy letters websites ask us to type into a box. It's used by web pages and newsletter sign-up forms to prevent computer robots from hacking into servers and databases. But these codes, which are becoming increasingly complicated for an average person to use, are not immune to security holes.

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