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Testing for Captcha (OWASP-AT-012)
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WARNING: CAPTCHA is considered to be an ineffective security mechanism - most current CAPTCHAs in these days can be cracked in a fully automated way!
Brief Summary
CAPTCHA ("Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart") is a type of challenge-response test used by many web applications to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer.
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