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Re: Worst CAPTCHA Ever

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Post by drostie »

fakeer wrote: post #44
_ikke_ wrote: post #2

Well, it is a good way to tell computers and humans apart. Computers can read it, while humans can't. They should reject corectly filled in captchas.

I still loathe reCAPTCHA more than any other captcha out there. I've given up hopes of logging in on many occasions simply because of it. Looks like it's designed for not to be deciphered either by humans or computers.

Fun tip: reCAPTCHA is actually two things, the "re" and the "CAPTCHA". In other words, one half is about testing that you're not a human, while the other half is a legitimately unknown word from a source of failed optical character recognition.

You actually don't have to get the latter one anything close to right; and I think you're given the option of at least one typo in the actual CAPTCHA test.

So when a CAPTCHA looks impossible, try doing the possible half and typing in "balls" for the other half. It actually works with pretty reasonable accuracy.

Re: Worst CAPTCHA Ever

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Post by dEnigma »

niggler wrote: post #37

How do audio captchas compare to the visual ones? Is it harder or easier for a computer to crack / people to understand ?

Audio captchas are pretty hard to solve for me personally, much harder than even almost unreadable Captchas. But maybe that's just me. Still can't imagine a bot solving the audio captchas I've heard though.

Edit: Just listen to it:

https://www.google.com/recaptcha/demo/

Re: Worst CAPTCHA Ever

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Post by improv32 »

nostrademons wrote: post #73
sabe__ wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like all these sites that requires you to enter your current password before you can change it, but deleting the entire account is just ticking a check box (at least twitter and dribbble worked this way back when I had accounts there). Some things we been doing for so long that we forget why we do them at all.

Or ones that make you confirm an e-mail address by entering it twice. The reason you confirm a password is because you can't see the password, and so you never know if you mistyped it. Confirming an e-mail address, in a normal text field, is just stupid busywork.

Or when you enter bad login info, and the site doesn't tell you if it was your email or your password. But on the reset password form it tells you when you put a bad email in.

Re: Worst CAPTCHA Ever

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Post by sabe__ »

nostrademons wrote: post #73
sabe__ wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like all these sites that requires you to enter your current password before you can change it, but deleting the entire account is just ticking a check box (at least twitter and dribbble worked this way back when I had accounts there). Some things we been doing for so long that we forget why we do them at all.

Or ones that make you confirm an e-mail address by entering it twice. The reason you confirm a password is because you can't see the password, and so you never know if you mistyped it. Confirming an e-mail address, in a normal text field, is just stupid busywork.

I was not talking about retyping the new password, but about requesting the old password before you can change it. The reason you do this is because even if you theoretically could hijack the session, you still can not hijack the account. But the priority seems a bit off when the password is more important then the account, which makes you believe that the people behind the sites only added the extra password validation because they seen it every where else, and not because they understand the principle behind it.

Re: Worst CAPTCHA Ever

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Post by roto »

sabe__ wrote: post #86
nostrademons wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or ones that make you confirm an e-mail address by entering it twice. The reason you confirm a password is because you can't see the password, and so you never know if you mistyped it. Confirming an e-mail address, in a normal text field, is just stupid busywork.

I was not talking about retyping the new password, but about requesting the old password before you can change it. The reason you do this is because even if you theoretically could hijack the session, you still can not hijack the account. But the priority seems a bit off when the password is more important then the account, which makes you believe that the people behind the sites only added the extra password validat…

Its to prevent people from being able to change your password if you step away from the computer for a few minutes to take a piss.

Re: Worst CAPTCHA Ever

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Post by niggler »

dEnigma wrote: post #83
niggler wrote: post #37

How do audio captchas compare to the visual ones? Is it harder or easier for a computer to crack / people to understand ?

Audio captchas are pretty hard to solve for me personally, much harder than even almost unreadable Captchas. But maybe that's just me. Still can't imagine a bot solving the audio captchas I've heard though. Edit: Just listen to it: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/demo/

That is awful. In most of the triplets, the middle sound is completely drowned out by the noise

Re: Worst CAPTCHA Ever

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Post by spikels »

mschuster91 wrote: post #3

D&B?! Aren't these the guys everyone including Apple trusts for their DUNS number?! Are you fucking serious?

D&B has got itself a sweet little monopoly business with these DUNS numbers. They charge $299 if you want "Expedited" service otherwise (according to the FAQ) it will take "a MINIMUM of 30 business days for a new D&B DUNS Number to be processed" (emphasis added). I get the sense they just sit on you app until the 30 days are up and no actual work is being done.

They also try to upsell you to one of the many other plans starting at $299. To somewhat soften their touch the basic service is free after all. And the expedited service is free for businesses considering doing government contracting (maybe we should all consider this as we apply to the Apple developer program).

https://iupdate.dnb.com/iUpdate/showFaq.htm#Request2

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