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I Love Captcha!

Mark Reyes

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posted 11 years ago

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Dear All,

I seriously love captcha and as a developer I find comfort in them in protecting my app from spam!

Sometimes some captcha make sense such as this one.

I just hope all sites follows thru with the sample captcha above.

...on the other hand, I seriously dislike captcha such as these.

It is seriously a pain in the eye. (especially to non-technical person and elderly one..)

How about you, do you have some favorite captcha?

Thoughts?

Sean Clark ---> I love this place!!!
Me ------> I definitely love this place!!!

Jelle Klap

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The dude abides!

Love it.

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

Jesper de Jong

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Captcha's do not provide 100% protection against automated bots. Many captcha's, even ones that seem very hard, have been cracked. The Coding Horror blog has a number of articles about this. See for example CAPTCHA is Dead, Long Live CAPTCHA!

Apparently there are smart hackers who know how to write software to recognize the letters in a captcha, even if the letters are (almost) unreadable by a human being.

The Daily WTF also has some funny articles about CAPTCHA failures:

CAPTCHA'd
CAPTCHA'd - All Facebook Edition
Captcha'd - Do Not Complain

Jesper's Blog - Pluralsight Author Page

Jelle Klap

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