CAPTCHA broken?

A classic problem of digital deception is determining whether an entity is a computer or a human. The most famous test was the Turing test. More recently, CAPTCHAs (or Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) have been used to ensure that a user is a human and not a computer. They do this by displaying letters against a cluttered visual background that makes automated optical resolution difficult. But, in the article here, reports indicate that spammers have broken CAPTCHAs. Chalk up another form of digital deception.
--Jeff