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Captcha - what next?

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Captcha - what next?
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Captcha - what next?
June 22, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Computers are quickly catching up with our own ability to recognize characters. So the codes we have to type in when we register to web sites keep getting harder. How about this one:
[Image: 2268237679_4bef97f9b0.jpg?v=0]

A couple of years from now, how will a web site tell a human from a bot?
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RE: Captcha - what next?
June 22, 2012 at 1:14 pm
Twenty years from now, will it make a difference?
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RE: Captcha - what next?
June 22, 2012 at 1:21 pm
The problem with captchas isn't that computers are catching up (which they are, I agree), but that there are captcha-solving companies which employ people at low wage (often in India) to solve the captchas in real time for various spam organisations.
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RE: Captcha - what next?
June 22, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Well yeah that's also a problem but at least that involves some cost captcha hacked
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RE: Captcha - what next?
June 22, 2012 at 1:34 pm
There will soon be time when only computers will be able to read them.

Fucking stupid things.



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RE: Captcha - what next?
June 22, 2012 at 2:08 pm
(June 22, 2012 at 1:08 pm)zvi Wrote: [Image: 2268237679_4bef97f9b0.jpg?v=0]
I can't even make sense of that.

Where's the seven? Confused
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June 22, 2012 at 2:14 pm
(June 22, 2012 at 2:08 pm)Welsh cake Wrote:
(June 22, 2012 at 1:08 pm)zvi Wrote: [Image: 2268237679_4bef97f9b0.jpg?v=0]
I can't even make sense of that.

Where's the seven? Confused

Fuck he seven I couldnt make out any of it.



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RE: Captcha - what next?
June 22, 2012 at 3:56 pm



I ran across one captcha of two words in which the first word was upside-down. I'm like, what the? No fair.
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RE: Captcha - what next?
June 22, 2012 at 11:52 pm
(June 22, 2012 at 3:56 pm)apophenia Wrote: I ran across one captcha of two words in which the first word was upside-down. I'm like, what the? No fair.

Sounds like the captcha gotcha.
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RE: Captcha - what next?
June 23, 2012 at 12:19 am
downbeatplumb Wrote:There will soon be time when only computers will be able to read them.

That's right before SkyNet is formed, and it releases the Terminators.
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