{"51301":{"#nid":"51301","#data":{"type":"news","title":"CAPTCHAs Don\u2019t Work Anymore","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a blog post last month, Distinguished Professor and Dean of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nComputing Richard DeMillo described CAPTCHAs, the distorted text used\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nas a security test to thwart Spammers and other Web site abuse, as \u201ca\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nleaking levee facing a hundred-year storm.\u201d\u00a0 Now ABC News reports that\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nSpam originating from Google\u0027s Gmail domain doubled last month,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nindicating that spammers are still defeating the CAPTCHA (Completely\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nAutomated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u201cInternet security in general is a cat and mouse game, with security\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nsystems and professionals trying to stay a step ahead of the black\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nhats. But staying ahead with CAPTCHAs is tricky and may be impossible,\u201d\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nDeMillo said. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.virtualblight.com\/articles\/?p=20\u0022\u003ERead Rich DeMillo\u0027s full discussion on CAPTCHA here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/PCWorld\/story?id=4421745\u0022\u003ERead the ABC News item \u0022Crafty Spam Outsmarts Gmail\u0027s Filters\u0022 here.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIn a blog post last month, Distinguished Professor and Dean of Computing Richard DeMillo described CAPTCHAs, the distorted text used as a security test to thwart Spammers and other Web site abuse, as \u201ca leaking levee facing a hundred-year storm.\u201d\u00a0 Now ABC News reports that Spam originating from Google\u0027s Gmail domain doubled last month, indicating that spammers are still defeating the CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart).\u00a0 Source: Virtual Blight\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:41:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:04:43","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2008-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2008-03-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}