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		zamalek on Dec 9, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reverse-engineering the new “captchaless” ReCaptch... > It will deter the less skilled people from attempting to "hack" the system.... ... especially if slight changes are made. Google could change the smallest thing and run the lot back through their mangler and the attacker would have to go through the process of unobfuscating it all over again.

coldcode on Dec 9, 2014 | [–]

Creating an ever increasing war of mangler vs demangler.

yincrash on Dec 9, 2014 | | [–]

Which is exactly the case with regular captchas except now this is less annoying for real human users.

instakill on Dec 10, 2014 | [–]

Your username is the slang name for Carling Black Label beer in South Africa :)

zamalek on Dec 10, 2014 | [–]

Exactly, it's good beer :)

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