MegaUpload captcha cracking in JavaScript
posted Jan 23rd 2009 6:06pm by Eliotfiled under: downloads hacks, misc hacks
This was certainly the last thing we expected to see today. [ShaunF] has created a Greasemonkey script to bypass the captcha on filehosting site Megaupload. It uses a neural network in JavaScript to do all of the OCR work. It will auto submit and start downloading too. It’s quite a clever hack and is certainly helped by the simple 3 character captcha the site employs. Attempting to do the same thing with ReCAPTCHA has proven much more difficult.
UPDATE: [John Resig] explained of how it works.
[via Waxy]
