[TYPO3-english] spammers beating captcha

[Simon Child]

"Jigal van Hemert" <jigal at xs4all.nl> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1.1327216235.4042.typo3-english at lists.typo3.org...
> Hi,
>
> On 21-1-2012 22:38, Simon Child wrote:
>> Today I have had several spam comments posted, so it seems they are 
>> beating
>> the captcha (or entering it manually? but if so unusually persistent to 
>> try
>> it a dozen times or more).
>
> From tests with a few non-TYPO3 projects it seems that "they" have found 
> the easiest way around CAPTCHAs: humans.

Looks like you are correct - they seemed to try it out for while and then 
gave up when none of their messages appeared on the site.

Thanks

Simon Child