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Researchers Dare AI Experts To Crack New GOTCHA Password Scheme
alphadogg writes "If you can't tell the difference between an inkblot that looks more like 'body builder lady with mustache and goofy in the center' than 'large steroid insect with big eyes,' then you can't crack passwords protected via a new scheme created by computer scientists that they've dubbed GOTCHA. GOTCHA, a snappy acronym for the decidedly less snappy Generating panOptic Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, is aimed at stymying hackers from using computers to figure out passwords, which are all too often easy to guess. GOTCHA, like its ubiquitous cousin CAPTCHA, relies on visual cues that typically only a human can appreciate. The researchers don't think that computers can solve the puzzles and have issued a challenge to fellow security researchers to use artificial intelligence to try to do so. You can find the GOTCHA Challenge here."
I feel like they mind as well have asked me to paint a picture which best conveys my ex-girlfriend's LiveJournal post from 2001.
I don't see any of these. e.g. How the F*** is that a robot on a skateboard?
The only winning move is not to play.
I dare them to take their scheme to the streets and fairly find 1000 people that can get them right.
Too bad for you, because C# is an awesome language that absolutely doesn't require Windows or .NET or Mono.
You can not fail the Turing test. It is just to test if you are a robot or not. You are clearly a robot.
They now use a variation of the test to determine if you are danger to the USofA. (Or perhaps it is the same test.)
Oh, and if you can swim, you are a witch.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
I suspect that this scheme is also approximately as ADA (and I assume the EU has an equivalent, it's the sort of thing that they would do) compliant as prior CAPCHAs, which is more or less 'HAHA, ocular cripple, no website for you!', possibly with an audio variant that is either broken and simply not actually a substitute, clear enough to be within attack range of commercially available text-to-speech software, or something allegedly human; but about as comprehensible as a heavy metal vocalist screaming a language you don't know through a couple of tin cans and a piece of string, from underwater...
I'm not sure how more sites don't get smacked for that.
Your haiku doesn't work.
And I go over to the psychologist, and he says, "Emo, what does this inkblot look like to you?"
..and he gets kind of depressed.
I said, "Oh, it's kind of embarrassing."
He said, "Emo, everyone sees something, so don't be embarrassed. Tell me what the inkblot looks like to you."
I said, "Well, to me it looks like standard pattern #3 in the Rorschach series to test obsessive compulsiveness."
I said, "Okay, it's a butterfly." and he cheers up.
He said, "What does this inkblot look like?"
I said, "It looks like a horrible ugly blob of pure evil that sucks the souls of man into a vortex of sin and degradation."
He said, "No, um, the inkblot's over there. That's a photo of my wife you're looking at."
"Oh," I said, "was I far off?"
He said, "No. That's the sad part."
- Emo Philips
"His name was James Damore."