Source Code Updated
July 30th, 2008AT&T assigned a Captcha system to their order status script to defeat the page, the only problem is that they pay the wrong people. If AT&T is listening let me give you a little insight onto the two major flaws of their idea.
- Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart or better known as CAPTCHA, (clearly someone who was extremely over paid came up with this obnoxiously long acronym) was designed to filter out artificial intelligence from performing a function and allowing a human to pass through to complete an objective, like submitting a form, or an order check in this case. I’m curious to know who in the depths of AT&T’s corporate bat cave suggested “Hey, let’s put Captcha on the form to stop these shenanigans!” I only ask because they clearly never through to address what exactly they were trying to do in the first place since this script is designed to interface with humans and not artificial intelligence.
- Even if the script was to use artificial intelligence to gather the information than I guess we would be completely foiled, except for the fact that CAPTCHA was defeated years ago. The source code for these bots is available freely to download for “educational” purposes throughout the internet.
Which in my opinion makes this person over paid and useless. If AT&T really wanted to stop these scripts there is only one way to do it and the only way they are ever going to figure it out, short of hiring a better staff is to email me and ask directly..or they could call me on my iPhone.
Oh and here’s the new source code.
http://www.herebethedragons.com/iphone-queue.rar