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Does anyone know how Craigslist’s CAPTCHA system generates its words? Someone sent me this photo, which I suspect is real. My hunch is that they just harvest recent Google searches and my name happened to be Googled lately and someone I knew hap…pened to get the word on Craigslist. Cool nonetheless. But I’m curious if anyone knows how it really works.

Does anyone know how Craigslist’s CAPTCHA system generates its words? Someone sent me this photo, which I suspect is real. My hunch is that they just harvest recent Google searches and my name happened to be Googled lately and someone I knew hap…pened to get the word on Craigslist. Cool nonetheless. But I’m curious if anyone knows how it really works.

  1. andylanger posted this

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