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Google Street View Accidentally Made An Algorithm That Cracks CAPTCHAs
House numbers on Google Street View can turn up as blobby, blurry things, so its engineers built a pretty crazy neural network to decipher them. Except this algorithm also turns out to be very very good at deciphering other blobby, blurry texts — like CAPTCHAs, which it cracks with 99 per cent accuracy. Take that,…
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Google Finally Puts Captchas To Good Use
Captchas are the Internet’s speed bump. They perform little function beyond slowing users down — not bots, mind you, just people. But now Google’s found a way to employ the oddly-fonted phrases for a different kind of verification.
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Stanford Researchers Create Software To Pass Audio Captcha Tests
Stanford Security Laboratory’s computer scientists have discovered how to crack audio captchas, using software that can listen in and correctly output the string of random letters and numbers websites use to test whether you’re human, or a malicious bot.