[UPHPU] Breaking Captchas

[Velda]

Lonnie Olson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Caleb Call <caleb at macjunk.net> wrote:
>   
>> Well his host (I'm 99% sure I know who it is) used to have several scripts
>> that you could do this with.  I moved away from them a while ago, but I
>> doubt they would really care about him doing this.  I know captcha is used
>> for a reason, but I bet they wouldn't think twice about it.
>>     
>
> Are there any other reasons for implementing a captcha, other than to
> block automation?  Without any other reasons, simple logic proves they
> are purposely intending to block attempts to automate the use of that
> form.  So unless their decision to implement the captcha completely
> defies logic, they are definitely *not* ok with Kirk automating it.
>
> *sigh*
>
> But I must concede the point that, yes, there are a great deal of
> people who's minds are illogical.  But they rarely live long, or run
> companies that last long.  :P
>
> --lonnie

FWIW, I'm with Lonnie on this one.  Wouldn't hurt to ask the host :-)

-V