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Washington Post Security Fix: Thwarting Anti-Spam Defenses

Recently there were a whole bunch of blog articles crowing that “CAPTCHA is broken” at major webmail providers & such.  But as Brian Krebs explains, “…automated programs that spammers use to thwart CAPTCHAs still aren’t nearly as successful as the practice of hiring thousands of people to do nothing but remotely solve the puzzles for clients.”  This article highlights one such service, one of the many spam support services which have recently popped above-ground.