Andy Jarrett: Will Solve Captcha for Money?

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Will Solve Captcha for Money?

I've taken the title straight from Slashdot. Its an interesting post about freelancers willing to crack captcha's for money (an not much!).

It makes you wonder if there would ever be a safe solution to form population. I've been thinking about a new solution that would probaby deter a little a longer which would be a mix of captcha's and questions.

If the image was a readable question (like 2+2) then put in the answer, else just copy the words.

What do you think?

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Posted By Ash @ 9/6/06 4:13 PM

Whats next? Solving pop culture trivia questions to post a comment? :)

I still like the captchas where you have to click on a kitten in the midst of a group of puppies.

Posted By Steve Webster @ 9/6/06 4:18 PM

I think it's time we give up on captcha. I can barely make out what the letters in your captcha are as I'm typing this, and when you start alienating ordinary users it's time to find another solution.

Posted By Brandon Harper @ 9/6/06 4:39 PM

Yes, CAPTCHA is so "Open your manual to page 56 and type in the 4th word on the 6th sentence in the 3rd paragraph".. ie, mid 1980's games. Most all major blogging platforms have given it up for comment spam and instead integrated Akismet or another non-evasive solution.

Posted By Stephen Moretti @ 9/7/06 9:38 AM

Take a look at Charlie Arehart's articles on CAPTCHA.[1]
CFXCaptcha gets a very good rating as a human readable and very hard to beat captcha [2]. LylaCaptcha (used in BlogCFC) isn't listed.

[1]http://carehart.org/blog/client/index.cfm/blogcfc
[2]http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/

Posted By fernando lopez @ 9/7/06 4:32 PM

I was just reading about this and found a couple interesting links.

all these captchas are easy to defeat apparently
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~mori/research/gimpy/ez/

and the kittens idea is pretty interesting, this site has something similar
http://www.gigoit.org/humanauth/
I like it because it is Accesible.

The one that is really simple but I don't know how difficult would be to take a snapshot of the page and just use the OCR
http://www.indexuhelp.com/captcha/captcha-test.php...
No accesible for sure though.

in Summary I don't trust CAPTCHAs anymore.

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