May 18, 2007
Cal Poly Program Uses Pet Photos to Foil Spam Robots
If faculty members and students at California Polytechnic State University's College of Liberal Arts want a Web account, they need to pick out some cats. And avoid dogs.
It's a new method, demonstrated this month at a tech fair in Washington, of telling humans apart from computer programs. Those programs, created by spammers and hackers to hijack servers, fill college e-mail systems with garbage such as links to porn sites. Other security methods, such as asking users to recognize and
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