May 17, 2006, 2:28 p.m.
IT

Oh this is so precious!!!!

Do you know what a CAPTCHA is? It is one of those small graphics people (like me) use whenever a turing test is to be performed - i.e. a human be told apart from a computer. Typically this is used in blogs to allow only human commenters, registering for email/online accounts etc. The idea is to display some warped text on a distracting background so that OCR programs have difficulty recognising the characters from the noise, but not humans. The primary use is to fight SPAM. But...........

......today I received a special SPAM message - unlike the other 22 I receive per day. See, this time the SPAMMERS are using our own tools to defy Anti-SPAM tools... So this is an Anti-(Anti-SPAM) technique? This is starting to get so confusing!!!

Look at the nice ad I got - and recognise the CAPTCHA style of the contents. So precious! I love it!
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