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Deozaan

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #100 on: May 30, 2011, 11:59 AM »
Okay, I encountered this one yesterday. I could read it just fine, I just didn't know how to type it:

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #101 on: May 30, 2011, 12:01 PM »
Okay, I encountered this one yesterday. I could read it just fine, I just didn't know how to type it:
(see attachment in previous post)

Like this:

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #102 on: May 30, 2011, 12:04 PM »
lɐɔıʇılod

:o :huh:

How the smurf...?

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #103 on: May 30, 2011, 12:10 PM »
¿ǝɹoɟǝq uʍop-ǝpısdn pǝdʎʇ ɹǝʌǝu ǝʌɐɥ noʎ
¿ʇɐɥʍ

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #104 on: May 30, 2011, 12:54 PM »
lɐɔıʇılod

:o :huh:

How the smurf...?

/ɯoɔ˙uʍopǝpısdnǝdʎʇ˙ʍʍʍ//:dʇʇɥ

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #105 on: May 30, 2011, 05:48 PM »

z̵̬ͬͩ̒̈́́͘a̗̰͓̻̜̩̘̼͑͊̓̾̾́̔͊ļ͔̩̔̓ͥͫ̈́͌̕͡ḡ̴̵̩̙̱͈͖͙̟ͪ̃̆͘ó̵͚͇̮̼̒̈ͫ̈ ̮̪̮͋ͣ̆͛͝ͅį̗̙̅ͫ̃̊̾ͅs̵̯̪͚͎͓̜̃ͪ͊̅̆̍ͨͅ ̙̱̝̩̙̲̈̄̿̂̉̑ͅaͫ̀̐ͥ͂̓ͩ҉͓͎̹̰͔̮̱͕l̸̸͎̯̞̩̮̖͆ͨ͗͜s̷̬̺̫̞͍̱͖̗͆̑̾̕͟o̖̮̼͇͐͗̀ͫ̆͘ ̵̜̰̘̄͛̉̐̈́͐̀̚c̵̰̮̻̞̻ͯ̀̔͠o̷̢̙͉̺̼̦̩̯̮̓̌͐͊̊̊̿ͪ̚ȫ̿́ͫ̿̎̒͏͙͇̩̻ͅl̶̡̫͓̽ͧ̈ͫ̿̑
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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #106 on: June 01, 2011, 11:25 PM »
Fine, so it's possible to type upside down, but how about sideways?

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #107 on: June 02, 2011, 12:10 AM »
beware the Combining Cyrillic Millions character, it warps text.

on a separate thought, i ran into this gem quite awhile ago: http://ejohn.org/blog/ocr-and-neural-nets-in-javascript/
it breaks megaupload captchas using javascript, neural nets, and ocr in a greasemonkey script. the author has kept it fairly up-to-date, but i have no idea if it still works. the script is hosted here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/38736
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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #108 on: June 03, 2011, 05:07 AM »
z̵̬ͬͩ̒̈́́͘a̗̰͓̻̜̩̘̼͑͊̓̾̾́̔͊ļ͔̩̔̓ͥͫ̈́͌̕͡ḡ̴̵̩̙̱͈͖͙̟ͪ̃̆͘ó̵͚͇̮̼̒̈ͫ̈ ̮̪̮͋ͣ̆͛͝ͅį̗̙̅ͫ̃̊̾ͅs̵̯̪͚͎͓̜̃ͪ͊̅̆̍ͨͅ ̙̱̝̩̙̲̈̄̿̂̉̑ͅaͫ̀̐ͥ͂̓ͩ҉͓͎̹̰͔̮̱͕l̸̸͎̯̞̩̮̖͆ͨ͗͜s̷̬̺̫̞͍̱͖̗͆̑̾̕͟o̖̮̼͇͐͗̀ͫ̆͘ ̵̜̰̘̄͛̉̐̈́͐̀̚c̵̰̮̻̞̻ͯ̀̔͠o̷̢̙͉̺̼̦̩̯̮̓̌͐͊̊̊̿ͪ̚ȫ̿́ͫ̿̎̒͏͙͇̩̻ͅl̶̡̫͓̽ͧ̈ͫ̿̑

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #109 on: June 03, 2011, 08:44 AM »
z̵̬ͬͩ̒̈́́͘a̗̰͓̻̜̩̘̼͑͊̓̾̾́̔͊ļ͔̩̔̓ͥͫ̈́͌̕͡ḡ̴̵̩̙̱͈͖͙̟ͪ̃̆͘ó̵͚͇̮̼̒̈ͫ̈ ̮̪̮͋ͣ̆͛͝ͅį̗̙̅ͫ̃̊̾ͅs̵̯̪͚͎͓̜̃ͪ͊̅̆̍ͨͅ ̙̱̝̩̙̲̈̄̿̂̉̑ͅaͫ̀̐ͥ͂̓ͩ҉͓͎̹̰͔̮̱͕l̸̸͎̯̞̩̮̖͆ͨ͗͜s̷̬̺̫̞͍̱͖̗͆̑̾̕͟o̖̮̼͇͐͗̀ͫ̆͘ ̵̜̰̘̄͛̉̐̈́͐̀̚c̵̰̮̻̞̻ͯ̀̔͠o̷̢̙͉̺̼̦̩̯̮̓̌͐͊̊̊̿ͪ̚ȫ̿́ͫ̿̎̒͏͙͇̩̻ͅl̶̡̫͓̽ͧ̈ͫ̿̑


T͗͒̎ͭh̬̻̜̩̟̅a̮̠̱̱ͭ̿ͯͪͭͨͬt͚̭̰̰ͨ̈ͨ ̅͗̾̆ͥ̽w̛̟̜̠̞͛̊a͎̗̯͕̦̅̈́s̹̯͕̣̹̥̦ͫ̊̈ ̎͒͏͚ẽ̀ͮ́͐̑̚҉̱̹̳̯̮̦̫x͇̓͒̚̕c̪͍̆ͭͬ̃ͬë̯͎̗́͗̈́̋̈̚͘l̦͙̳̲̹̂̃́l͎̳̙̈̀͐͘e͖͔ͬ̏̚ǹ̨͉̺͖̒̾̆͆ͥ̀ț̟̌̇ͭ͋ͩ̑!̃
That was excellent!  ;)

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #110 on: June 03, 2011, 09:29 AM »
Here's a nice one. I tried refreshing the image so many times I got temporarily locked out of trying anymore. The next day I was able to figure one out. (The board administrator is looking into getting a more readable captcha system.)

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #111 on: July 14, 2011, 09:00 AM »
I just tried verification via audio, because I couldn't read the words MS asked me to enter on their web site. The instructions were: please type every word you hear. don't worry if you don't understand some words. just enter your best guess. Guess what: I did not understand a single word!

Attached is the respective audio file so you can give it a try ;)

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #112 on: July 14, 2011, 09:08 AM »
What the hell.. that sound file is insane. Literally insane. Are they literally having 3-4 voices sound at the same time... 1 .. hair.. neural week 8... or something is the best I can come up with.  :tellme:

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Re: Who else is sick of difficult word verifications on the web?
« Reply #113 on: July 14, 2011, 03:52 PM »
Daddydave- the funny thing about that is that after reading Renegade earlier link

http://www.apathysketchpad.com/blog/2007/06/05/how-to-crack-captchas/

Sigh... I don't know why we bother...

it seems that class of Captcha are particularly easier to crack.

I saw this related link on Reddit the other day - How not to design a CAPTCHA. I guess Sony and Captchas don't quiet understand eachother.
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