This is the next generation of Captcha to stop automatic responses generating from bots and driven scripts. The idea looks very nice and I admit that! the old way using a simple mixed numbers with letters isn’t that good to stop spammers.
The current method and what is being developed (as shown) is based on animation but the problem or difficult side of this Captcha is the complexity. not only to focus and figure out what is the hidden-inside thingy.
Until this moment, bots and scripts can easily beat the regular Captcha secutiry. As an example I use Akismet to keep my wordpress blog safe and clean but unfortunately, it’s not working that fine. I always find between 10 and 50 spam comments everyday.
This development seems to be really helpful and perfect but I really hope see it spreading the world to stop the annoying part of the Internet.
Personally, I think this will be a killer technique to stop spam and auto generated responds! crossed fingers.
Posted in: Tech | Tags: Bots, Captcha, Spam, WordPress
8 comments for this post.
January 16, 2010, at 6:31 pm
nice post badi and btw your new theme is sexy
January 16, 2010, at 6:36 pm
Thanks buddy
Glade you like it. btw this is a great idea to start working on it. make something dude
January 16, 2010, at 7:01 pm
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January 16, 2010, at 11:36 pm
Although this is a neat technique, I doubt it will stop spam when it really matters! The problem is that even the toughest captchas are being cracked, not necessarily by bots, but by humans. Yep! That’s what many tiny sweat shops in Philippines are doing where captchas are being cracked for 0.02c each or even less. Eventually with these pretty sophisticated captchas it will start taking more computer time to generate than it takes to crack! Then the “bad people” will create a nice big dictionary of all of these and offer it for sale.
Captchas are inherently stupid! The whole concept is based on a novel idea that the human brain can comprehend better than machines, which is wishful thinking at best.
Add to that the inherent problems associated with this specific test and people with disabilities, visual or otherwise and you will end up with the simple conclusion that captchas are -by design- stupid and no matter how sophisticated they are, will end up in the garbage with the rest of the useless crap
January 17, 2010, at 2:34 am
Such a deep view Sam!
But let’s look at the bright side of Captcha, if you cannot do anything to stop Spam then I think that Captcha is the only way to at least reduce spam messages.
If nothing would stop spammer then a technique to reduce spam as much as possible is totally appreciated. to have something is better than having nothing to use.
January 17, 2010, at 5:40 am
Hi Mohammad,
I didn’t say there aren’t any potent ways to stop spam. I just argue that Captcha isn’t one of them. Here’s something to consider, natural language processing. A machine smart enough to create these complicated captchas is potentially smart enough to understand and distinguish people’s comments from spam. It’s doable for sure! I say this because I personally created a prototype and from what I can see, it works great (just look at my Qwaider Shield counts and you will know)
My rough estimates put the ratio of Spam to real comments at about 20:1 on an active blog. Over the past few years that I’ve been running my prototype, I ended up flagging 2.8 million IPs for potential spam and it’s quickly rising
Anyway, I doubt there’s a single quick magic potion that will solve this problem, captcha is certainly not doing that great. It helps, but for a very short period of time and against very limited set of attacks
Personally, I think removing the value of what the spammer is looking for (a link back) is worse than blocking them from commenting. Simply by disabling comments with links you do way better than any captcha can provide, with a fraction of the effort
January 17, 2010, at 11:01 am
nice post badi and btw your new theme is sexy
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