Can They Be Beaten?

[brodie28]

Is there any way to beat those little security validation code boxes that are supposed to stop scripts from running?

Here's an example

www.mafiareturns.com - NOTE: I do not visit this site, nor am I writing a script for it. This is simply a random example of a security code.

Is it possible to somehow obtain the code from the image and input it?

[flyingboz]

embedding text in images depends on the computational intensiveness

and accuracy of OCR implementations. It takes a lot more computing

power to perform OCR w/ a lot less accuracy than working directly with the

code.

These methods can be defeated by OCR, by cracking or human engineering the

image-text database, or by conscripting a workforce to build the database for you.

[Bert]

Security boxes are there to keep you from doing something. What do you want to do? Also, it could be a rights issue. Could you expand on what you want to do?