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Re: The world's hardest CAPTCHA

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http://www.geee.net/blog082.htm This is a list of the recent posts. There's no way he could be this dedicated to a "joke" website. The recent events mentioned suggest that it's not just changing the times dynamically, so the posts are actually recent. That's just scary. I wonder what kind of life he lives with the extreme paranoia of MI5 messing with him constantly. He needs medication, and a hobby to keep him away f…

"Unless, of course, MI5 actually have an obscene number of people on their books - perhaps as many as fifty thousand agents, which, if that is the case, means our 'democracy' is completely fucked." I am not sure what law or internet forum rule it is that says any sufficiently developed parody of being a kook is indistinguishable from being a real, honest to goodness kook... but browsing around this site I am quickly…

There's no reason to assume it's fake or a parody in my opinion.

Psychosis/Schizophrenia is very real and affects many people, who can function very normally but think slightly weird thoughts and have the urge to express them and tell people.

Re: The world's hardest CAPTCHA

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What an odd website: http://www.geee.net/blog.htm I can't quite get it. Is it a joke? The writer[1] seems incredibly paranoid that the CIA are poisoning him and keeps overhearing agent's talking about killing him. The Captcha is a joke, but it seems out of place with the rest of the content. 1. http://www.geee.net/543u5.htm

I'm surprised nobody mentioned the "images" section: http://www.geee.net/easter141.htm

Re: The world's hardest CAPTCHA

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http://www.geee.net/mv.htm It does not appear to a joke. It seems an awful lot like paranoid schizophrenia...

http://www.geee.net/blog082.htm This is a list of the recent posts. There's no way he could be this dedicated to a "joke" website. The recent events mentioned suggest that it's not just changing the times dynamically, so the posts are actually recent. That's just scary. I wonder what kind of life he lives with the extreme paranoia of MI5 messing with him constantly. He needs medication, and a hobby to keep him away f…

> I wonder what kind of life he lives with the extreme paranoia of MI5 messing with him constantly.

The lives of those that suffer from paranoid schizophrenia are well 'documented' in popular culture. One such item you may be interested in is the film 'A Beautiful Mind'. It is based on the life of John Nash, but keep in mind it is a dramatisation rather than a documentary.

There are also a number of 'simulations' on Youtube that may exemplify the horrendous nature of the condition, if you are so inclined to experience them. One such video is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vvU-Ajwbok .

I hope I have not taken your portrayed interest too literally!

Re: The world's hardest CAPTCHA

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I always thought this chess captcha I read about a while back was the toughest thing I had heard of. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/03/12/chess-captcha/

Presumably a Go captcha is the more effective, since computers are worse and Go than humans. [Provided you are a professional Go player...]

Re: The world's hardest CAPTCHA

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No actual captcha checking going on (submit button in own form doing a GET, Flash does no external network calls verified via MITMProxy), as many have noted it seems to be a joke.

However, this would be one of the easier captchas from a bot standpoint. You have the source image and only need to create the equivalent in another format (Flash)? Assuming no fancy bot checks in Flash, the process of duplication is trivial. The bot doesn't have to guess what it is, just duplicate and machines are great at that. In fact, this is more like an anti-captcha (hard for humans, easy for bots).

Re: The world's hardest CAPTCHA

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Wrong. World's hardest CAPTCHA: harm or allow a human, through inaction, to be harmed. (It's a reference to two of Asimov's three laws)

That's what I wrote the "humans.txt" captcha for: http://www.mrspeaker.net/2010/07/15/humans-txt/ Keep those pesky humans away.

Re: The world's hardest CAPTCHA

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.geee.net/blog082.htm This is a list of the recent posts. There's no way he could be this dedicated to a "joke" website. The recent events mentioned suggest that it's not just changing the times dynamically, so the posts are actually recent. That's just scary. I wonder what kind of life he lives with the extreme paranoia of MI5 messing with him constantly. He needs medication, and a hobby to keep him away f…

> I wonder what kind of life he lives with the extreme paranoia of MI5 messing with him constantly. The lives of those that suffer from paranoid schizophrenia are well 'documented' in popular culture. One such item you may be interested in is the film 'A Beautiful Mind'. It is based on the life of John Nash, but keep in mind it is a dramatisation rather than a documentary. There are also a number of 'simulations' on…

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Re: The world's hardest CAPTCHA

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What an odd website: http://www.geee.net/blog.htm I can't quite get it. Is it a joke? The writer[1] seems incredibly paranoid that the CIA are poisoning him and keeps overhearing agent's talking about killing him. The Captcha is a joke, but it seems out of place with the rest of the content. 1. http://www.geee.net/543u5.htm

http://www.geee.net/mv.htm It does not appear to a joke. It seems an awful lot like paranoid schizophrenia...

It looks similar to: http://www.bandycituska.pl/ this guy claims to be undergoing tortures inspired by Polish prime minister, thousands of people round the world involved. He even has a botnet and sends tons of spam mail linking to his website. Some kind of a syndrome?

Sorry for my English, Pole over here :)

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