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Kilimanjaro
on July 29, 2012
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Captchas Are Becoming Ridiculous
Bots would spam your site once every 26 tries.
jvrossb
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I was going to say don't most modern sites limit multiple attempts in succession? Then I realized that spammers have thousands of computers at their disposal so the successive attempts would not come from the same IP. Shoot this is a hard problem...
Devilboy
on July 29, 2012
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Spammers have thousands of machines.
bbrtyth
on July 29, 2012
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More than that, since they would guess one of {e,t,o,i,n}.
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