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CAPTCHA - What ?

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/07/captcha-what.html only moderately secure (ie Keeps the kids away)Now on the checking part the users text is passed through the same hashing function and top-secret function. Then the cookie value and the newly calculated value is compared to catch the bot ;)....A disadvantage of using CAPTCHA is for the visually challenged people. People with unclear eyesights colour blindness etc may face a problem in reading the CAPTCHA code. So the other CAPTCHA method is to use an AUDIO file, an MP3 instead of a JPEG or PNG ...

Making any Window Transparent on XP

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/01/making-any-window-transparent-on-xp.html , ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As LongOption ExplicitPrivate Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowLongA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long, ByVal dwNewLong As Long) As LongPrivate Declare Function SetLayeredWindowAttributes Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal crKey As Long, ByVal bAlpha As Byte, ByVal dwFlags As Long) As Long ...

Protect yourselves from phishing

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/01/get-smart-against-phishing.html the target url on the status bar (bottom of the page), Is it the url ? Copy the link address and paste it to a new text file and examine it from head to tail. Do a google search for the site, if anything related to phishing comes up...One old phishing technique was to mask the target server using the http://username:password@www.site.comSo the fraudster would mask his url as http://www.urbanksite.com/somevrylongtext/todistractyou@www.evilsite.comNow this technique has depricated since most browsers warn ...

Fun with UNICODE and Mirroring Character

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2006/11/fun-with-unicode-and-mirroring.html . Get a browser like firefox that supports unicode.Want the mirroring character?The mirroring character cannot be seen and I couldnot find the HEX or Numeric Code. If anyone has found out leave a comment.The mirroring character is within these braces (‮‮( Inorder to get the mirroring character, try copying the content between the braces and paste it somewhere to see the magic! ...What can it be used for?‮‮http://www.mysite.com/fol/file.html?site/moc.elgoog.www://ptthSuppose you paste a link like ...

Perl Script to Login to Orkut

http://digitalpbk.blogspot.com/2007/05/perl-script-to-login-to-orkut.html and GET the redirect page URLGoto the redirect pageGoto Orkut.com/home.aspxYour done.Note:Tested on Linux (FC6, Perl 5.8.8)The following script is for linux, Will run on Windows too but the ANSI coloring may not work...Windows Program is given below the program for Linux (without ANSI coloring).For Linux (with ANSI coloring)use WWW::Mechanize;use HTTP::Cookies;use HTTP::Request::Common;$cj=HTTP::Cookies->new(file => "cookie.jar",autosave=>1,ignore_discard=>1);$mech ...