Everybody tuck ya trousas into ya socks...

The CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) system that generates all those squiggly random text snippets you have to enter to post to your blog or whatever online has been cracked by spammers. Why must digital image processing be continually used for evil?

CAPTCHA is annoying but is the only solution right now to prevent spam floods in blogs and web account generation. To read more about CAPTCHA, here's an awesome article on the guy who invented it and other Man-Teaches-Machine web technologies. Good news is on page 5 saying that CAPTCHA 2.0 (reCAPTCHA) is on it's way and it will also populate data for the Internet Archive's digital library project. Given the web's viral nature, you'll probably see a lot more blog spam paired with a huge rush to reCAPTCHA by service providers.