New York Times
My project ocr-research.org.ua becomes popular :)
NYT found me as an interesting guy to speak about the CAPTCHAs.
Read here.
How can I comment this?
I dislike this separation to spammers and good guys. Breaking CAPCTHA, if you want to know, does not really help spammers - email systems doesn’t use CAPCTHAs for sending mails (only for registration, but again - it’s not the spammers targets). Computer vision is a great data domain, it’s an excellent field to apply IT knowledge, and CAPTCHAs are the perfect tasks. It’s like a challenge: “look what I’ve done, try to beat me”. They are just created for this purpose. Such challenges are very useful for any automated system - it makes it better. Are hackers good? Yes on No - but anyhow thanks to them! Current versions of *NIXes are stable and invulnerable because of their permanent attention to this.
Every lock and limit firstly causes an attempt to overcome it. This is just natural.
ReŃognizing CAPTCHAs is fun. Very fun.