[extropy-chat] Free Pr0n helps spammers

[Mike Lorrey]

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/28/1344207&mode=thread&tid=111&tid=126&tid=172&tid=95

First the feds said that smoking dope helps terrorists. Now, it seems,
seeking out free pornography helps spammers set up free email accounts.
You've all seen those relatively new anti-spam graphics on websites
when you register for some sort of account that involves having an
email box. The graphics are called 'captchas' and display distorted
text that you are supposed to decipher and enter into a field to prove
you are a real person and not a spammers program trying to obtain
throwaway email accounts.

Turns out that spammers are setting up websites by which porn
aficionados can sign up to receive free porn. Signing up for these also
involves a captchas for you to decode, but it isn't a captchas FROM
THAT SITE. It is a captchas that a spammer program has gotten from a
free email website and is using the porn fiend to do the decoding.

A curious case of a program using a person as an extension.

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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
"Fascists are objectively pro-pacifist..."
                                       - Mike Lorrey
Do not label me, I am an ism of one...
Sado-Mikeyism: http://mikeysoft.zblogger.com

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