Originally by: Norxil

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CAPCHA stopped being useful for forums multiple years ago, Forum spamming by bots got that covered when OCR became a widely usable option.
As has been discussed already, many BOTs use OCR extensivley.

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Thats not true. I have yet to see any forum with CAPCHA being flooded with spam. Also Blogspot uses this to keep botter away which normaly flood the reactions with any blogspot topic. OCR only works with stuff like books and only if the text is clear. If you want OCR to reconize your own handwriting you need to train it and then it isn't optimal.

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Originally by: Soi Mala

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You guys should find this hilarious...

For the last couple of weeks, my corporation has been greifing an alliance - Wardecs, camping the pipe to their 0.0 home, afk cloakers etc.

One guy in particular has parked a few of his alts in their space, particularly the ratting systems, where he afk cloaks most of the day, every day. If he happened to be around while targets were out, he'd probe and blackops bridge for us etc. You might argue about the lameness of these tactics etc but that is beside the point. A few days ago, his alt accounts received mails stating that they had been banned for 3 days, reason: use of a macro/bot.

Really? These accounts that had been sat perfectly inactive? Not killed rats, not mined, not done anything? What exactly were they macroing? He was asked to explain why he was logged in all the time, as this was highly suspicious, as opposed to just logging in and probing when he needed to. Apparently this is behavior exhibited by RMTers.

He appealed and luckily got the bans lifted, but the whole thing caused megalols amongst the corp. Perhaps the funniest thing in my eyes, wasn't the lack of reasoning, but the fact that it was only a 3 day ban... Seriously, that is supposed to stop these botters? Hardly the kind of punishment i'd class as "unholy rage".

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Originally by: Cyaxares II

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Edited by: Cyaxares II on 29/03/2011 19:35:11

Originally by: Caius Sivaris

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BTW given that per CCP Fanfest security presentation the security team is three months old does it means it was because of this thread?

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Sreeg's explanation was that it takes a lot of time to recruit talent in this field (especially when you have a reputation for not paying that well and ask your employees to relocate to Iceland, lol), so I think it's safe to say that CCP has been working hard to find a suitable candidate for the "malware analyst" job opening since at least 2003.

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