04 November 2009

Bad captcha


I know captchas are necessary to block bots and automated programs, but sometimes they are almost indecipherable.

4 comments:

  1. Some of these graphic things are not too bad. Yahoo's are by far the hardest to decipher of any I have seen. And now they are using more and more letters. I have seen up to eight undecipherable letters in a Yahoo box. It has taken me five or six tries to get them right. What a pain in the ane!

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  2. My Online Banking (German bank) has captchas as well, but they also offer to read it to you.

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  3. I agree with the first and second posters. I think it's yMJsJ2L, but some captcha things are absolutely ridiculous.

    Why not use combinations of photos (say: dog cat, plane, penis apple fish) instead of letters? not only would it be harder for a computer program to identify, but it would be easier for a human to decipher it.

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