You know these graphics where you have to re-type a phrase or some characters or number in order to prevent automated registrations or queries:

Boing Boing: Solving and creating captchas with free porn

Basically the spammers make porn-hungry people work. So they show them the so-called 'captchas' from other sites and ask their site visitors to 'crack' the code for them in order to get past the protection. Just like a human brute force attack.

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