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Old 06-23-2008, 09:17 PM   #1
Undertoad
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Foreign spammer problem documented

This is a graph of new user accounts. A few weeks ago we changed the settings of the CAPTCHA which people have to fill out on registration.



Clearly, the CAPTCHA had been broken and automated bots were used to create new user accounts.

And clearly, too, at some point the new CAPTCHA will be broken, and the one after that...
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