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46 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 17 March 2008 01:59AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 19 February 2013 06:06:48AM 1 point [-]

From the Wikipedia article on CAPTCHAs:

Several research projects have broken real world CAPTCHAs ...

That strikes me as one of the least beneficial research projects that I have ever heard of. I really hope they didn't publish their methods freely.

Comment author: [deleted] 19 February 2013 05:28:58PM 1 point [-]

The idealistic side of me agrees, but the cynic side knows perfectly well that in this day and age, security through obscurity doesn't work well for long.