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December 19, 2018, by Roberto Iriondo — Updated May 5, 2020

Everyone despises CAPTCHAs (humans, since bots do not have emotions) — Those annoying images containing hard to read the text, which you have to type in before you can access or do “something” online.

CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart) were developed to prevent automatized programs from being mischievous (filling out online forms, accessing restricted files, accessing a website an incredible amount of times, and others) on the world wide web, by verifying that the end-user is “human” and not a bot.

Nevertheless, several attacks… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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