captchas

Of course, by putting recognizable words in captchas rather than random strings of numbers and letters, the likelihood of a non-human could guess them would increase.

Ads in Captchas 2007

Of course, by putting recognizable words in captchas rather than random strings of numbers and letters, the likelihood of a non-human could guess them would increase.

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

Called "social authentication," the tool is intended to improve on traditional "captchas" -- those squiggly letters that you often have to identify to get into a secure site.

Facebook Beefs Up Security With A Little Help From Your Friends WSJ 2011

Called "social authentication," the tool is intended to improve on traditional "captchas" -- those squiggly letters that you often have to identify to get into a secure site.

Facebook Beefs Up Security With A Little Help From Your Friends WSJ 2011

Mr. Garibay said his software worked by feeding "captchas" -- distorted letters and numbers that users need to retype to prove they are people, not software programs -- to workers in India who were paid $2 an hour.

Ticketmaster Wins Ruling 2008

Someone told me about an ingenious way that spammers were cracking "captchas" -- the distorted graphic words that a human being has to key into a box before Yahoo and Hotmail and similar services will give her a free email account.

Boing Boing: January 25, 2004 - January 31, 2004 Archives 2004

The W3C has singled out "captchas" -- the pseudo-Turing-Tests intended to keep spammers form using automated tools to create freemail accounts in bulk -- as disastrous for the blind and other disabled users of the Internet, since they rely on sight and reading comprehension to work.

Boing Boing: November 2, 2003 - November 8, 2003 Archives 2003

The big problem I have with captchas is you’re taking part in an arms race with the spammers and giving them instant feedback on how well they’re doing.

Spammers Randomate and Captchas « The Paradigm Shift 2008

The whole point of captchas is that robots cant read as well as people. but one day, robots will be able to read better than people, and robot’s will be making ROBOTCHAS to keep us from gate crashing their robot parties.

I’m sick of CAPTCHAs 2006

I can’t stress how much I despise captchas from a usability point of view.

The Captcha is dead. « The Paradigm Shift 2006