Stanford Boffins on the Brink of Breaking Captcha Codes
Captcha systems, those psychedelic-font phrases designed to weed out bots from users, are a staple website security. And, thanks to Stanford Researchers, they may be quickly becoming completely useless. The researchers employed machine vision algorithms to successfully crack 66 percent of Visa’s Captchas, 70 percent of Blizzard’s, and 25 percent of Wikipedia’s. For reference, a…
