When Captcha codes go bad

By Kevin Roderick | June 16, 2011 7:49 AM

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Reader Daniel J.B. Mitchell has noticed more newspapers using the Captcha service to prevent abuse of the forwarding option on stories. Sometimes the words it comes up with are amusing. Or in this case, from the L.A. Times website, just unintelligible.


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