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No need to break captchas, just get humans to type them for you at $1.39 / 1000 captchas. http://deathbycaptcha.com/user/login http://deathbycaptcha.com/user/login Also the article mentions that reCaptcha is the most secure implementation of captchas so far. This is semi-true. Up until mid-August of this year (if I remember correctly) reCaptcha was quite trivial to break. Then in late-August/early-September someone apparently kicked their ass into high gear and they released several different variants of reCaptcha only weeks apart (unfilled in letters and lines that ran through multiple words). Again these were trivial to crack by simply modifying the old OCR to work remove the new distortions. Then in late September (I believe, I don't record these dates anywhere) they finally settled on a wave distortion that I have yet to figure out how to break (due to lack of skill, time, and interest). You can check it out here: http://www.google.com/recaptcha/demo/ajax http://www.google.com/recaptcha/demo/ajax But all spammers that need to crack reCaptcha usually do so for account creation. In this case, their margins are high enough for them to simply use deathByCaptcha. So, captchas are defeated, not due to the security of their implementation, but due to economics.