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How does this work?

Started by WillyWag Jan 10, 2003 at 2:41 PM 2 replies 100+ views

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Jan 10, 2003 at 2:41 PM

Wondered this for a while now, perhaps some of you know... How does that thing when you''re asked to "enter the text you see in the diagram" work? I''ve seen this sometimes on Yahoo where I''ll forget my password and I''m asked to enter the text I see in what looks like a generated image. I don''t understand what this is for? what are they verifying with this scheme? and secondly, how does it work? -willy

The Alchemist

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The Alchemist

Jan 10, 2003 at 2:49 PM

they are verifing if isnt a bot that is logging in

they do that to prevent being attacked by bots that logs multiple times quickly or that creates a massive number of accounts

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aegrimonia

Jan 10, 2003 at 2:50 PM

It''s only designed to fool automated programs..

apparently there are people who have written software to automatically sign up for a bunch of yahoo mail accounts, so they can spam from them..

the picture is only to make it impossible, or really hard, for a computer to look at the picture, and recognize what is there..

that''s all it''s for.

elendil67

Jan 10, 2003 at 3:32 PM

you''re all wrong*they want to be cool...

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