A group of russian hackers/crackers have released a new way to crack the captcha that Yahoo! uses in everything, chat, mail, registration. So everyone get ready to see a large surge of porn bots in the chat rooms. Yahoo! why not use the spam filter idea I talked about previously? You guys must have the resources to put it in place. Granted the captcha method did reduce the number of bots, but it certainly didn’t solve the problem like they had stated or we all hoped for.

This group has released the code into the wild, so expect every spammer and his brother to be downloading it and outfitting it into their spam bot programs.

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