I was reading an article on compression tools for linux when I became curious about the data that they were using for their tests. They made reference to lenna.tiff, “The compression testing poster girl”. There is a compression testing poster girl? Well yes there is.
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Spammers and OCR
A few weeks ago it was reported that a botnet operator had cracked the Microsoft Windows Live Mail CAPTCHA system. CAPTCHAs are the pictures you see, typically of distorted words, when you sign up for accounts from various providers. Now it seems that this same botnet operator has successfully cracked about 20% of Google’s CAPTCHAs. …