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Letter: Unspotted animals

Published 6 October 2010

From Rosemary Campbell

I tried to spot the animals hidden in the picture accompanying your article on a new technology used to camouflage images, but I was foiled (17 July, p 17). If this technique is indeed going to be used online to make Captcha images to distinguish real people from software bots, then a lot of people are going to end up even more frustrated by computer systems than they already are.

Glen Waverley, Victoria, Australia

Issue no. 2781 published 9 October 2010

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