A NOTE FROM BOBBY BENNETT, COMPETITIONPLUS EDITOR (1 Viewer)
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TK
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Bobby, keep fighting the good fight sir!!
drag racer
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No problem, Bobby. Many of us are so hooked we will click as much as possible to get our daily CP fix! BUT, any way you could tell the Captcha folks to change the photoset from horses and lions to, say, "which of the following show a Top Fuel Dragster?", etc. 
my question with these hackers is, what exactly is their end game ? Comp plus is not a billion dollar company to extort money from. there's no major rivalry's in dragracing web sites that would justify attempting to cripple the competition. Ordinarily, any criminal or antisocial behavior, has an agenda, that it deems ultimately rewarding. Other than someone just trying to be D*ck, i cant see the point!
You answered your own question, James....teenage basement dwellers doing it for sport, and the occasional angry competitor doing it out of meanness. In Bennett's case I'd guess it's a group of young Chinese, since he mentioned the attack was Chinese, perhaps honing their IT 'skills' for when it comes time to actually extort a business or spy on an American company in order to steal trade secrets. That entire country would still be using horse and buggies if it weren't for ripping off western technology.
The capcha deal is no big deal at all. My business requires me to access restricted areas of the Texas DMV and they require capcha entry every time. Takes a few seconds and you're in. Biggest pain with their site access is they constantly require you to change your password.
