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We have all seen CAPTCHA’s on the various web sites we visit. Something that never occurred to me though is that it seems that there is a whole industry built around circumventing or cracking CAPTCHA’s. Read the CAPTCHA topic on Wikipedia or do a Google search on ‘CAPTCHA cracking’ and  you will find many articles on the topic.

There are various methods that are implemented to automatically crack them that range from using  simple OCR software to using neural networks. I have also read some articles that mention that they can be cracked with JavaScript. (more…)

South African’s woke up to the exciting news today that MWEB, one of the countries’ largest Internet Service Providers, are launching long-awaited uncapped broadband packages. (more…)

The big news in Search last week was the final go-ahead on the integration of Microsoft and Yahoo’s Internet-search businesses.

The on-again, off-again deal by the two internet giants was signed back in July, but regulatory approval by the European Commission and the US Department of Justice only came through this week. (more…)