Decaptcha: breaking 75% of eBay audio CAPTCHAs

  • Authors:
  • Elie Bursztein;Steven Bethard

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University;Stanford University

  • Venue:
  • WOOT'09 Proceedings of the 3rd USENIX conference on Offensive technologies
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

CAPTCHA tests aim at preventing attackers from performing automatic website registration. In this paper we show that our prototype Decaptcha is able to successfully break 75% of eBay audio captchas. We compare its performance with the state of the art, readily available speech recognition system Sphinx and discuss the implications for eBay security.