Google Updates ReCAPTCHA With Easier CAPTCHAs For Humans

Posted by timothy on Friday October 25, 2013 @10:51PM from the destroy-all-humans dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google today released an update to its reCAPTCHA system that creates different classes of CAPTCHAs for different kinds of users. In short, it makes your life easier if you're a human, and your work much harder if you're a bot. Unsurprisingly, Google wouldn't share too much detail as to how the new system works, aside from saying it uses advanced risk analysis techniques, actively considering the user's entire engagement (before, during and after) with the CAPTCHA. In other words, the distorted letters are not the only test."

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Can I still answer "nigger" for the readable word? by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-25 23:45 · Score: -1, Troll

Google used Recaptcha to help its OCR: One part of the captcha was a known word that was algorithmically garbled and the other part was an unknown word from a book scan. Since Google only knew one half, you could enter anything you want for the other part. I believe the convention was to enter "nigger" for the OCR part and hope that enough other Recaptcha victims enter the same.