This evening's techy update

[green_amber]

From Bruce Schneier:

"Spammers have created a Windows game which shows a woman in a state of undress when people correctly type in text shown in an accompanying image.

The scrambled text images come from sites which use them to stop computers automatically signing up for accounts that can be put to illegal use.

By getting people to type in the text the spammers can take over the accounts and use them to send junk mail."

How utterly fab. How does it feel to be Pavlov's dog, oh slavering mankind? And do we girlies (and possibly gay men?) get naked pix of John Barrowman?

Comments

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

It's a fun idea, and I note that it's only been spotted as at a proof-of-concept sort of level of activity. Which is what I'd expect: only stupid people would do it.

It's not as if one can't readily get access to rude pictures of people - in whatever state of undress one desires - on the Internet without having to jump through CAPTCHA hoops, is it? I'm even led to believe that one can similarly obtain pictures and even videos of people being very friendly indeed with each other.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

i was impressed :)