Stephan Bergmann wrote: > On 07/30/09 11:19, ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote: > > I brought up the idea of adding a Captcha for new user registrations, > > but there was no real definitive answer or agreement on that one. > > I find interesting what John Viega writes about "CrAP-TCHAs" in his > recent book "The Myths of Security" > (<http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596523022>), where he weighs usability > implications against alleged spam prevention ("However, you can pay > someone a mere $2 to break 1,000 CAPTCHAs.
I believe a CAPTCHA would be useful nevertheless; it seems that ReCAPTCHA, that relies on word combinations, could be a bit harder to exploit in the way the book suggests. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ReCAPTCHA Regards, Andrea Pescetti - Italian N-L Project Lead. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@website.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@website.openoffice.org
