[Python-Dev] Summary of Tracker Issues (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu May 17 16:35:15 CEST 2007

On 5/17/07, Hrvoje Nikšić <hrvoje.niksic at avl.com> wrote:

On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:17 -0700, Talin wrote: > Here's a simple method: Put up a free porn site [...]

Is it known that someone actually implemented this? It's a neat trick, but as far as I know, it started as a thought experiment of what could be done to fairly easily defeat the captchas, as well as all other circumvention methods that make use of human intelligence.

I don't have hard data but it's been related to me as true by Googlers who should have first-hand experience.

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