As long as we continue to make advancements with internet technology there will always be someone trying to figure out how to hack, crack or game the technology. The most recent victim is the CAPTCHA … Refer article entitled “Digital Deception” by The Washington Post Staff Writer, Peter Whoriskey that summarizes the state of the problem.

What is a CAPTCHA you may well ask? Refer below for an example of Carnegie Mellon’s version - ReCAPTCHA – they’ve been popping up everywhere across the web.

CAPTCHA - Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart

The primary purpose is to prevent abuse from automated programs (bots) usually written to generate spam, blogspam, pingspam, etc. It works on the basis that a computer program cannot read distorted text as well as humans – the bots cannot then traverse the web site.