An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter

Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by hunter2_ on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @01:45PM (#32401216)

Captcha comes to mind, but that's a cat-and-mouse game in the age of machine learning (not to mention actual humans working for a bad actor). Cloudflare seems to be on the cutting edge with their newest challenge mechanism, but good vs bad is somewhat distinct from human vs script.

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by dhosek on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @02:23PM (#32401794)

My wife was in charge of security at MySpace back when MySpace was still a thing and there was one occasion that the MySpace team was manually feeding images to a suspected human acting as a bot. As I recall it became clear to both sides that there were humans on the other end and it ended with a picture of a scantily-clad woman and a response of “very funny.”

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Re:An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information... by zaarn on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @02:40PM (#32402098)

Solving a few thousand captchas an hour costs you like 200$ per day. Forget about it if someone is dedicated.

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