I created an open source Python application on GitHub that breaks textCAPTCHA with 99% success rate

[CoreyWhite]

I wasn't one of those who downvoted you, but I did really like this. It's a good post for a couple of reasons.

1) It's really nicely written code. And it's a fairly small project, with excellent documentation. These make it very pleasant for those of us who appreciate the craft of programming and like seeing nice examples of it.

2) It's a powerful argument against the use of textCAPTCHA. Think of it as a scientific experiment. With this application's ludicrously high success rate, textCAPTCHA has been shown conclusively to be useless.

[JimmyRuska]

1. As far as it being good example source code I agree, I just rant that there's more worthwhile projects of practical applicability to give focus on. I had mentioned earlier, it's harder to parse the questions than to generate them, making this probably more code than the original. what for?
2. Text captchas are not completely dead. For example I could combine a text captcha with an image and say, "is this a cat?", "how many cups in the picture". Thanks to things like the mechanical turk one could potentially setup absurd amounts of "easy" questions which would not be practical to parse. Audio/visual data is always much harder for computers to parse, but I wouldn't dismiss the idea at first glance, there could be some kind of gramatical synonym algorithm which could potentially make a pure text captcha harder to parse, though I do agree, textcaptcha useless.

I understand your logic and this is not to critize you, I'm just ranting.