Legal Question - If I write and publish an article on breaking CAPTCHA's with code am I breaking any laws?
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my legal books.
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I totally disagree. If he has broken it and doesn't publish it the writers of the original code won't know there is a problem until a bad guy figures it out and does harm. Odds are they already have by the way. There are many times more people looking for ways to break this kind of stuff than there are writers.
Actually I have already informed the website owner (they sit next to me) and have their permission to publish. I also do not mention the website in any form or link to it in any way.
The reason for publishing this is that when I was writing my thesis on how to break CAPTCHA's and perform OCR there were no decent guides on the web with code which you could tweak and run yourself. It is exactly the guide I was looking for when I started doing this. So I am not approaching this from a here is how to be evil standpoint, but how to help others in the same situation.
Bull. If he was being a white knight, just doing it for the betterment of the CAPCHA author, he would just tell the author, directly. Publishing it serves no purpose other than to tell the world "HEY HERE'S HOW YOU CAN BREAK THIS CAPCHA, HAVE AT IT!!".
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