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The New Line of Defense Against SPAM: Kittens

Kevin Larson, a researcher at Microsoft Corp.’s Advanced Reading Technologies Group, has come up with a novel way of defeating SPAM emails—asking the sender to identify a photo of a kitten. This is because computers that use automated programs to sign up for (then begin sending SPAM from) email accounts cannot identify the subject of [...]

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