Monday, August 6, 2007

Kittens fight against spammers?

Web majors are scratching their heads to stop the increasing email spam-mania as the recent study indicates that around 90 billion pieces of email spam is being sent everyday. In this course, software giant Microsoft have come up with a new idea to fool the spammers; an alternative to the currently implemented Human Interactive Proofs (HIP). According to Kevin Larson, a researcher at Microsoft's advanced reading technologies group, asking the user to identify the subject of a photo like kittens would help them block spam programs. In order to avoid spammers matching the correct response with each photo in the catalog and begin to spoof the system, Microsoft would continually take videos of kitten jumping around a room so that it generates almost an endless series of photos for identification. Jokingly, kittens can become the wave of future!

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