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Re: DOOM Captcha

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are on desktop, when clicking the "I am human" checkbox, hold your mouse down for a few seconds, and move it around just a touch for good measure, before letting go. This is usually enough to convince the system you are human and it skips the image hunt.

This is great. Do you have any more tips about how to be more human?

The first set is all you really need. Answering the second set (if presented) with completely wrong answers will usually cause you to pass. Wild guess -- perhaps ReCAPTCHA is checking for mouse movement and other behavioural heuristics after the initial test.

Re: DOOM Captcha

#125

Interesting. Fundamentally, I believe CAPTCHA, and attempting to distinguish humans from computers is pointless. I think it's better just accept it and design applications accordingly.

I don't understand. How would you propose protecting a website from DDoS attacks? What sort of design would address that?

Re: DOOM Captcha

#126
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While this is too simple (even the website admits that a bot could be written in virtually no time to break it), it does make me wonder if you could have a WarioWare CAPCHA. A minigame with extremely vague description that you have to react to quickly to pass. Thinking about it some more it fails the primary criteria for a CAPCHA: it needs to be harder to write the bot that cracks it than each test case, by at least…

It mostly depends on what you are trying to protect with your CAPTCHA. When I managed a small phpbb forum, all I had to do was to change a few lines in the register page to make it non-standard and it stopped all bots. Better than the built-in CAPTCHA. Simply, no one cared enough about our forum to write a specialized tool, no matter how easy it was. If it is all you have to protect, go ahead with your clever ideas,…

When I managed a purely Danish forum, i simply added a textbox and asked the user to write ‘æ’ in it. Never saw any spam after that.

Re: DOOM Captcha

#127

The music is terrible - (gives me 90's website MIDI audio PTSD :P) - but it's a cute idea. Would this actually be an effective CAPTCHA? E.G. Security-wise? Also, speaking of 90's-internet PTSD, I actually almost mistook this for a spam banner ad knowing already what I went into. Wayyy too many of those 'punch the monkey' or 'shoot the duck' animated banner ads that didn't even care where you shot. :P

Guys, I didn't mean the music itself was terrible, I meant the fact that music was included to be auto-on to start in web content produced post-2002... I would have personally put the audio as off by default, with the little icon to set it to on. :) I am fully aware what the DOOM soundtrack sounds like an my complaint is that there is audio at all - especially on by default - and that it reminds me of those awful web…

I get your point - it was way too loud initially and would quickly get annoying after the second or third time if it was being used as an actual captcha.

That said, the music is what really sold it for me. How better to perfectly highlight the absurdity of proving your humanity by going on a virtual demon-slaying spree than dropping you right in the middle of a retro 90s metal cacophony!

Re: DOOM Captcha

#128

I know it's a bit of fun and kind of a joke.... but, makes me wonder: What will happen some day when solvers and bots get so smart and human-like (and the CAPTCHAs evolving to keep up, with harder and harder tests) that the technology "have nots" human beings of our world will not even be able to prove they're human any more?

If you were walking through the desert and came across a tortoise on its back, would you help it? If so, what would it take for you to not help it?

Re: DOOM Captcha

#130

While this is too simple (even the website admits that a bot could be written in virtually no time to break it), it does make me wonder if you could have a WarioWare CAPCHA. A minigame with extremely vague description that you have to react to quickly to pass. Thinking about it some more it fails the primary criteria for a CAPCHA: it needs to be harder to write the bot that cracks it than each test case, by at least…

I’ve seen this in the wild, or something like it. Your idea isn’t far away from it- https://www.jqueryscript.net/form/image-puzzle-slider-captch...
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