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Tag: spam

I hate captchas

Here’s what Google just showed me… I’m sorry, but I can’t read that. Camilo could, but I couldn’t. Spammers are getting better at OCR‘ing captchas, and in return, captchas are getting harder to read. I think this one just crossed the line… now even humans can’t read them!

Irony: Spam on our TechCrunch article!

I just noticed that a spam comment made it through on the article about Defensio’s launch on TechCrunch. How ironic is that? TechCrunch doesn’t use Defensio; they use a competing product instead. Here are the obligatory screenshots: Clicking on the author name takes you to this blatantly spam page: Bottom line is: use Defensio!  But [...]