[TYPO3-typo3org] little rant about TER captcha (but not only)

[Alex Heizer]

Hi,

Why not use the freeCap extension, which already seems quite finished, 
and is already being used with other extensions:
http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/extension-manuals/sr_freecap/0.4.3/view/toc/0/

Alex


Thomas Hempel wrote:
> Hi Elmar,
>
>   
>> it is not as secure as a classic captcha because of the missing bluring, so
>> that machines still can read the text out of the picture. But it is
>> unlikely that someone would programm such a script to hack a single site.
>>     
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>   
>> As soon as it would be a mass product I am sure it would be spammed sooner
>> or later.
>>     
> Of course it will. As everythng...
> But the point is that we want to have a captcha that human readable. And it's 
> clear, that the most captchas (especially the ones on typo3.org) are not.
>
> The idea behind this question captcha is, that you have a picture. That is a big 
> barrier for bots at the moment. If it is blurred or not... It doesn't matter 
> because there will be OCR programms that will recognize this earlier or later. 
> The point is that they doesn't do now!
>
> And as second step we have the question which is totally random. I think a 
> simple mathematical question two numbers up to 20 or 30 is resolvable for 
> everybody. But for a bot it's quite hard because you can replace any part of the 
>   task as signs (+-0-9) or as words (plus minus twelve, thirtyeight etc.). I 
> don't think that the efforts for hacking this with a bot doesn't worth just for 
> adding a simple comment in a guestbook.
>
>
> This is just my opinion. If someone can tell me something else... Let me know 
> ;-) I'm open for discussion
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> Greets,
> Thomas
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