Reply to post: At DJO, Re: CAPTCHA's.

Proposed Brit law to ban b**tards brandishing bots to bulk-buy tickets

Shadow Systems

At DJO, Re: CAPTCHA's.

There are far too many examples of bots foiling CAPTCHA's.

The blind & anyone without perfect visual acuity can't see the pictures, but the bots can OCR them easily & regurgitate the "hidden" letters, numbers, & symbols.

The deaf & those even remotely hard of hearing can't make out the audio ones, but the bots can apply various tricks to extract the bits that matter, plug them in to the site, & carry on their merry way.

The tests to make sure a live Human is actually the one trying to do something actively fails utterly at it's task: it blocks the Humans & lets the bots in.

Sites that use CAPTCHA's deserve to die wedged into the buttocks of the nastiest Golgothan that Satan can find to torment the bastards for the rest of eternity...

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