https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19229
--- Comment #4 from Happy-melon <[email protected]> 2009-06-18 08:39:19 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > I bet 99% of captcha crackers can't even *begin* to analyse non-latin > > scripts. > > There's probably a significant increase in security to be had from opening > > up > > the character set used in the captchas. > > I don't see how, unless you start giving non-latin captchas to everyone, in > which case we will quickly find outselves without any new accounts... > If you give a Cyrillic captcha on ruwiki, that means only spambots that can read a cyrillic captcha (or who can navigate the vagarities of CentralAuth) can spam on ruwiki. Ditto for every other wiki on which we can serve a non-latin captcha. No, it doesn't provide increased security on say, enwiki, because we need to continue to serve latin captchas there, but wherever we *can* serve captchas in other scripts, we get improved security. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
