On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 12:20, Sankarshan Mukhopadhay wrote:
> By now all of us have seen that major sites ask the user to input a 
> string based on a distorted image of the same (alphanumeric) string. 
> This is part of a security measure against bots.
> 
Its called CAPTCHA which is "Completely Automated Public Turning test to
tell Computers and Humans Apart".

> I guess that sometime back MIT had a research project on this which 
> actually spawned this usage. Could anyone provide pointers to URLs 
> relating to this tool ?
> 
www.captcha.net
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=captcha&btnG=Google+Search

-Animesh

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