That Facebook friend is really a fake
dan tynan on Oct 02 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Facebook, Infoworld, Twit or Tweet
More headlines today about the seething dark underbelly of the Web creeping up to slime you and your friends.
According to security company AVG, somebody pwned Facebook’s CAPTCHA anti-bot mechanism yesterday, either by cracking the code or (more likely) hiring a team of human drones for a few pennies apiece to decode the squiggly letters. They [...]
