Comment Re:Won't be cracked in ten years? Ha! (Score 1) 326
Email only gets through if you have a valid address, you're sending from the corresponding valid address, and you decode the CAPTCHA. See the case studies toward the end of the article.
And it's not just CPU cycles needed to test your 7,893,600 permutations, each test requires an email. Is that worth it, from a spammer's perspective, to reach one recipient? Wouldn't he instead discard that address (or ignore the bounce) in favor of an unprotected one?
And it's not just CPU cycles needed to test your 7,893,600 permutations, each test requires an email. Is that worth it, from a spammer's perspective, to reach one recipient? Wouldn't he instead discard that address (or ignore the bounce) in favor of an unprotected one?
