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December 31, 2009

The eve of a new year reminds me of one of the biggest let downs of my life... Y2K! A chance for things to get reshuffled, and a bit of beaurocracy to be trimmed or restructured. A decade later we have post 9/11 patriot act craziness and more big brother than ever.
The cost in time wasted is immesurable. It's like captcha and recaptcha. Both crackable by spammers and both at a tremendous cost of human time wasted.
I just wanted to pass on the easiest way to bypass such things.
1 build some service or thing people want, say search for game hax/mods
2 build your script to spam protected service and grab the captcha
3 use the search submit to execute the spam script and prompt the user to solve captcha.
4 ?
5 profit

Happy new year!
Don't let THEM waste it.

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