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What are the chances that imgur is throwing this image as an exploit prevention technique? Maybe there were 3000+ times the author triggered the rate limit, or
by arihant 11y ago
What are the chances that imgur is throwing this image as an exploit prevention technique? Maybe there were 3000+ times the author triggered the rate limit, or some other metric?
The next one called "White Line" appeared 2000+ times too, maybe doing the same job.
In early days of reCAPTCHA at CMU, Luis von Ahn did a similar thing. There are a lot of sweatshops to type in CAPTCHAs, they detected that, and instead of blocking them, they threw at them longer (sometimes entire sentences) CAPTCHAs to get their help digitizing text.
- JTon 11y agoThis is interesting and it seems plausible. However, at the beginning of the article the author said they stumbled upon this image multiple times by manually entering random 5 character filenames. If it were an exploit prevention feature, I would hope it would be more difficult to trigger