12:21 pm, 24 Jan 09
megaupload captcha
Someone make a Javascript-based captcha cracker for megaupload. It's strange to see those captchas again because I idly myself wrote a captcha-cracker for the same site. I don't think I ever announced it here because there wasn't any real application for it; I was just playing around.
According to the repo history it was two years ago, and the notes indicate how far I went before losing interest. As I recall their captcha image was quite weak, but you also needed to be able to interpret Javascript and fake out the DOM to skip a timed countdown.
According to the repo history it was two years ago, and the notes indicate how far I went before losing interest. As I recall their captcha image was quite weak, but you also needed to be able to interpret Javascript and fake out the DOM to skip a timed countdown.
I'm surprised there isn't a stealth ad Turing test
Something like: "Go to this link and type in the first word after the first appearance of "Overkill." which would of course be "Bomber". Easy to obfuscate a hundred ways, and you could direct your self-selecting victims to whatever advertising you want them to see.Re: I'm surprised there isn't a stealth ad Turing test
Pirated software sites used to do this: go click on this ad, tell me what the 8th word on the signup page is.Or, even better, go sign up for this "free" service and tell me what the 8th word of the membership email is.