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Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
Eóin:
It's only catch-22 if you're looking for a 100% solution. If you are looking just to reduce to torrent of spam then they most definitely DO work, I've seen so on my own site.
Also as a user I much prefer to see sites allow posting by answering a CAPTCHA over requiring you to register with a valid email just to add a comment.
Renegade:
It's only catch-22 if you're looking for a 100% solution. If you are looking just to reduce to torrent of spam then they most definitely DO work, I've seen so on my own site.
Also as a user I much prefer to see sites allow posting by answering a CAPTCHA over requiring you to register with a valid email just to add a comment.
-Eóin (March 22, 2008, 08:46 AM)
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Good points and agreed!
Eóin:
I suppose it's really only security through obscurity. Making minor tweaks to the login page just to force spammers to custom their bots for your site could be easily as affective for small sites.
PhilB66:
A few interesting links:
PWNtcha - captcha decoder (If you don't make it to the end of the page... here's the links to two related articles: Using AI to beat CAPTCHA and Breaking a Visual CAPTCHA).
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If you find CAPTCHAS annoying, see Top 10 Worst Captchas and two alternative CAPTCHAS: Hotcaptcha and Asirra.
cthorpe:
I am finding more and more that stump me. My personal rule is that two consecutive images that are too hard for me to decipher successfully results in me forgoing registration or posting or whatever. The only time I'll stick it out is there is something very important at stake.
And does anybody else find the audio verification found on some sites oddly unsettling at times? They just sound creepy with all the bizarre background noise and mumbling voices...
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