Sunday, December 9, 2007

So I'm a geek, nerd whatever you want to call it. I subscribe to PC Mag, and I jump in joy when the sleek laminated cover appears before my eyes when I open my mailbox.

A recent issue had an article that immediately caught my attention.

"Hacking Hannah Montana"

What was this about?

So you know when you sign up for something on a website, whether it be some new user account or something of the sort, and they present this mumbled jumbled letters and numbers where you have to retype into some open field box to prove you're human?

Guess what, some company has cracked this, and that product is being used everywhere by ticket sellers. So pretty much, Hannah Montana tickets were sold out within 3 minutes of their posting online because of this technology. Crime pays well huh? Well apparently there's going to be a lawsuit and now security experts have to devise a new way to prove someone is human. I fear that they'll find nothing.

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