On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 07:15:16PM -0500, Brandon wrote:
>
> > If a system like this became wide spread,
> > I would go back there and and start a company that solved these puzzles
> > wholesale by the thousand for people who for one reason or another wanted
> > them solved.
>
> Oskar is right. A think cash system only stops a weak attacker. So it
> protects against script kiddies to some extent but doesn't help against
> Them.
>
> So my conclusion on think cash is that when a hard to defeat puzzle
> generator is written I will be happy to add support for optional think
> cash to arbitrary indices and until then there's not much to talk about.
The thing is that someone will only have to develop a piece of
software to defeat this once, and then anyone can defeat it. Even if
the script kiddies themselves don't have the knowledge to defeat it,
it would not be unlikely for them to use tools to do this developed by
other people.
--
Yes, I know my enemies.
They're the teachers who tell me to fight me.
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance,
hypocrisy, brutality, the elite.
All of which are American dreams.
- Rage Against The Machine
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