Why the CAPTCHA Approach Is Doomed

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 8, 2009 @07:33AM from the how-do-you-feel-about-are-you-a-human dept.

TechnoBabble Pro writes "The CAPTCHA idea sounds simple: prevent bots from massively abusing a website (e.g. to get many email or social network accounts, and send spam), by giving users a test which is easy for humans, but impossible for computers. Is there really such a thing as a well-balanced CAPTCHA, easy on human eyes, but tough on bots? TechnoBabble Pro has a piece on 3 CAPTCHA gotchas which show why any puzzle which isn't a nuisance to legitimate users, won't be much hindrance to abusers, either. It looks like we need a different approach to stop the bots."

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Re:8==C=A=P=T=C=H=A==D by Ashriel · 2009-04-08 09:13 · Score: 0, Troll

Pfft. Like rednecks are going to sign up for anything that requires a captcha to begin with. I'd be surprised if more than 10% of them knew how to turn on the "magic thinking box" (nevermind get online).