Re: OT: porn attack against automated Turing tests

From: Phil Carmody (thefatphil_demunged_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 02/02/04 

Date: 02 Feb 2004 14:21:30 +0200

jsavard@ecn.aSBLOKb.caNADA.invalid (John Savard) writes:
> Well, someone reading distorted characters to see porn is aiding and
> abetting a criminal fraud against Hotmail and other companies,

And telling someone the time, or directions to the town square,
is aiding and abetting bank robberies? I don't think so.
I think you'll have some problem with the mens rea, for a start.
I can only suppose that you'll be lobbying for all termination of
public cryptographic research forthwith, after things like Ross
Anderson's utterly amoral aiding and abetting of PIN-cracking etc.

> so just
> monitor the Internet, track a few thousand of these individuals down
> and give them jail terms, and no one will unscramble distorted
> characters to see porn.

How am I, as a hypothetical one-handed surfer, supposed to tell
the difference between a legitimate online gallery of artistic
glamour images which is validly protected by a "captcha"-style
scheme in order to hinder robots from illegally acquiring the
copyrighted images, and a hotmail-busting porn-spammer?
What crypto algorithm would you suggest in order to help me
tell the difference? Not that you could answer me, of course,
just in case it aids and abets some future fraud.

Phil 

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