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Re: How NOT to do CAPTCHA Security

Hot Carl — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:57:38 -0000

Man, Daniel, I wish you were joking but the sad part is that I know you're not.

Re: How NOT to do CAPTCHA Security

Daniel Miessler — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:06:28 -0000

@Bahamut

Jesus help us if you weren't joking.

If you weren't you basically heard about someone being stupid, watched me make fun of them for being stupid, then proceeded to not even grasp why it was stupid, and then follow up with assuming I was the one who missed something.

You must be a developer, which means your comment is getting added to the coveted "most ironic comment" list. Nothing against you personally, but you just served as the example for the post. I couldn't have made something up any better.

Re: How NOT to do CAPTCHA Security

Matt — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:01:45 -0000

Bahamut, his point was that it is not a Turing test. Even if you could not figure out how to the extract the text from the image, you can write a script to select the text and paste it into the box.

Re: How NOT to do CAPTCHA Security

Bahamut — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:12:28 -0000

Do you know how it was set up? If someone found a way to dump out the test in text-format but also not have it available in the source somewhere, it should work. If it's rock-solid and works, why is it bad? And before you claim it can never work, real people also know that they shouldn't be using absolutes for anything.

How about not talking about something you never seen based on someone's observation of something he probably didn't know how it worked? How about not over generalizing people who develop and assuming that all developers are idiots? Researching before you blog about something? In. Sane.