Author: xor Date: 2008-11-16 04:45:45 +0000 (Sun, 16 Nov 2008) New Revision: 23636
Modified: trunk/plugins/WoT/introduction/captcha/ReCaptchaFactory.java Log: Add comment on anonymity. Modified: trunk/plugins/WoT/introduction/captcha/ReCaptchaFactory.java =================================================================== --- trunk/plugins/WoT/introduction/captcha/ReCaptchaFactory.java 2008-11-16 04:42:50 UTC (rev 23635) +++ trunk/plugins/WoT/introduction/captcha/ReCaptchaFactory.java 2008-11-16 04:45:45 UTC (rev 23636) @@ -11,7 +11,19 @@ /** * Suggested captcha factory based on http://recaptcha.net/ + * We would only need to find a decent way of anonymizing the requests using a public anonymization gateway or whatever + * of course. Maybe someone has an idea? Public tor proxies? * + * Description: + * reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs + * for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. + * This is possible because most OCR programs alert you when a word cannot be read correctly. + * + * But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that + * cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is + * then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the + * new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer + * was correct. * * @author xor * _______________________________________________ cvs mailing list [email protected] http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cvs
