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From: Scott Howard <scott () doc net au>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:23:55 -0500

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:48 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> wrote:

(Yes, yes, I'm well aware that many people will claim that *their* captchas
work.  They're wrong, of course: their captchas are just as worthless
as everyone else's.  They simply haven't been competently attacked yet.
And relying on either the ineptness or the laziness of attackers is
a very poor security strategy.)


So by this logic, the locks on your house
(car/work/letterbox/cellphone/etc) are worthless too.

Does that mean you leave your house unlocked?

  Scott.


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