Have y'all seen this?…
http://www.captchakiller.com/
They have a plug-in for Firefox / Firevox.
Smiles,
Cara :)
On Mar 29, 2008, at 4:06 AM, Jane Lee wrote:
Okay, at the risk of being massively flamed, the big point is that
captchas
are hard to break because it is not easily automated, hence stopping
things
like spam. It is usually prohibitively inconvenient and expensive to
hire
actual humans to read and therefore break captchas. however, it's
not the
only way to stop spam..it's just the simplest one to implement. It
takes
As mentioned by others, there are many other ways to replace captchas.
Personally, I think some of these alternate methods are fantastic
and make
more sense than captchas, but there is no one easy method to add
some of
these alternate methods because they are highly audience/culture/
language
dependent, while the Roman alphabet, numbers and non-alphanumeric
characters
used in most captchas are easy to randomly generate and use
everywhere, from
domain names to..well..everything.
The good news is that there is this system called recaptcha that is
growing
in use. The point of it is to digitize un-OCR-able words by using
the very
idea of a captcha..that (sighted) people can read words OCR software
cannot.
The good part is that there's an audio captcha there to select
instead of
the images!
cheers,
jane
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:30 PM, UCLA Bruins Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
Can anyone tell me what the function of CAPTCHAS is supposed to be?
Why are they needed on so many sites? Do they really perform any
function other than making it difficult for blind users to access
sites?
Olivia
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