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RE: [split] captcha useless
Yes, but again, they are mostly used to discourage the vast majority of spammers, not the 1% of pro-spammers.
Most spam does not come from 'expert' spammers, but from people like you and me.... well, not exactly like you and me, but I mean the casual user or casual would-be spammer, people like script-kiddies: spam-kiddies so to speak...
Which is also the reason why MS uses captcha when you add x amount of contacts which was the whole point of that original thread and the remark done by the OP and why I said what I said.
It's the very same discussion with encryption. Many encryption methods are breakable in one way or the other. Take MD5 for example. Yet it is still the most used hashing method today. And does that protect like 99% of the stuff it needs to protect. Yes it does. Not because it is failproof, but because it discourages 99% of (would-be) hackers/crackers.
The point is that it is not about 100% protection. Claiming it is, or discussing it like that by saying all captcha's are useless so let's not use them at all, is besides the point, or at least getting things out-of-context imo.
This post was edited on 01-17-2011 at 06:29 AM by CookieRevised.
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