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Protect Your Online Forms Here's how to set up a verification test that keeps bots and automated programs from filling out forms on your site. |
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Google's Doors Still Shut to Blind An Internet petition is asking Google to provide an accessible alternative to the visual verification scheme that currently locks the blind and visually impaired out of participation in all the company's services. |
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Fast Company
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Microsoft Seeks Patent for CAPTCHA-Based Ads Microsoft is seeking to patent a method for using a popular human-verification technology on the Web to deliver advertising to a captive audience. |
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Spam Inc. In 2002, spam is not just a scourge, it's big business. Our investigator reveals who's behind the assault on your in-box and why stemming the tide won't be easy. |
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Spammers Find New Ways Around Filters Image-based spammers now use image hosting to get around image filters. |
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CAPTCHAs For Social Good? The Soylent Grid project aims to channel Internet users' efforts to help the visually impaired with image recognition. |
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Stopping Spammers at The Point of Sale New research suggests going after the commerce sites listed in spam mail, but some have already been doing just that. |
The Motley Fool
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Google Plays CAPTCHA the Flag Google buys the challenge-response specialist CAPTCHA, makers of those squiggly text boxes that you have to retype. |
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Can Humans Build Conscious Machines? Will machines ever be capable of human intelligence? That's ultimately a matter for philosophers, not scientists, to decide, two of today's top technology minds agreed during a recent debate at MIT. |
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How To: Avoid Spam E-mail Rest assured there are things the little people can do to overcome that quagmire. Read on to find out how you can modify your surfing behavior to minimize the risk of a spam invasion. |
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Major E-Mail Providers Bare Can Spam Teeth AOL, EarthLink, Yahoo! and Microsoft use new federal law to go after kingpin spammers. |
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Facebook Hit With New Spyware Scam Hackers bypassed the social networking site's captchas to create new accounts at will. |
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Remember Figlets? They're Back With Zend The new open source Zend Framework makes it easier for developers to integrate common tasks and functions. |
BusinessWeek
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Out, Out, Damned Spam Junk e-mail accounts for roughly half of all network traffic. Here are five ways to beat it back |
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Deep-Sixing CAPTCHA The most popular challenge-response system on the Web is officially useless. |
