On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:15:01 -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 10:59:21AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: >> Bob writes: >> > This should enable the separate wget invocations to appear as a >> > single session client to the remote web site. >> >> But he'll still have to solve the captcha to establish the session. > > Indeed. > Isn't the whole point of using captcha to prevent automated access to > stuff? (ie. require human interaction).
(...) Captchas based on images have been "cracked" since loooong time ago ;-) And not always for doing "bad things". For example, SpamAssassin uses OCR techniques to "decode" spam messages which are embedded inside images. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jffbfs$8j9$3...@dough.gmane.org