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Re:Automatically Solving Captchas on Project Euler by userbinator on Monday August 25, 2014 @08:33AM (#8221470)
What are the "bad guys" going to do, create accounts and submit problem solutions...? There doesn't appear to be anything worth "attacking" here anyway, so I don't think this is a "security problem" at all.
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Re:Automatically Solving Captchas on Project Euler by joshdick on Monday August 25, 2014 @12:12PM (#8222377)
The captcha was introduced to Project Euler a few years ago in response to someone spamming the site with requests to check an answer.

Apparently, someone had trouble with a question, so they wrote a script to submit every possible number.

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