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		callahad on June 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Captchas are Becoming Ridiculous Comcast does that on their password reset pages. E.g., go to https://login.comcast.net/myaccount/reset, type in "foo", and click "Next." Edit: From checking the source, it looks like they're using NuCaptcha (http://www.nucaptcha.com/). Looks like O2, Groupon, and StumbleUpon are also NuCaptcha customers. You can see examples on this page: http://nucaptcha.com/features/security-features

ashmud on June 25, 2014 [–]

There is a blog post about defeating NuCaptcha here: http://www.elie.im/blog/security/how-we-broke-the-nucaptcha-...

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