No good company

I’m not against Microsoft, I’m not against Google, and I don’t work for them. Google, is not going to come and rescue anyone but itself. Nor the poor Yahoo,neither the poor Flickr users. Flickr powered by Vista(tm) is not pleasant. I can see that. Going against Microsoft is not unreasonable, may sound very cool, but … Leggi tutto

Yahoo! CAPTCHA is broken

In the last two days I’ve been receiving spam comments getting past the CAPTCHA filter I installed. The reason is here http://network-security-research.blogspot.com/ It’s not necessary to achieve high degree of accuracy when designing automated recognition software. The accuracy of 15% is enough when attacker is able to run 100 000 tries per day, taking into … Leggi tutto