Simon Willison’s Weblog

moot wins, Time Inc. loses. The Time.com poll hack was more sophisticated than I first thought... Time implemented reCAPTCHA half way through the voting period, but the 4chan community fought back with a custom interface that crowdsourced the job of voting and let individuals submit up to 30 votes a minute.

# 29th April 2009, 11:13 am / captcha, recaptcha, 4chan, timedotcom, security, voting, onlinepolls, moot