Recently I signed up to a new forum and was presented with the following Captcha:
Can any one give me a clue?!
Johnny
26 April 2007
17 comments
Comments
ds
said on 26 April 2007
I’m going with KON1WTUBU
man, that sucks…
tesla
said on 26 April 2007
Read between the lines, :-) they didn’t want you to join.
iamkeir
said on 26 April 2007
Hahaha, for real :)
sangramtheroot
said on 26 April 2007
i think it is KON1TUBU
James Pain
said on 27 April 2007
It’s only the letters with rich colour so…
KON1TUB
Chico
said on 27 April 2007
I agree with James, that’s the only logical possibility.
Tom
said on 27 April 2007
I love the way this has turned in to a competition to work out what it was :) I’m not sure that was the purpose of the post…. meerly to point out how stupid captchas can be.
Gregory Perry
said on 27 April 2007
Yeah, I agree that it’s KON1TUB, all of the other symbols are faded.
This kind of thing just shows how ridiculous current CAPTCHAs are, many are solvable by machines, I can even imagine a way that this one could be solved.
The best way I can think of is to have a nearly infinite set of images of dictionary words, like “duck”, “fish”, etc. (Easier said than done.) If the images weren’t ever shown twice, the machine would have to be amazingly intelligent to pass, where a human would have little difficulty.
“What is this a picture of?”
Jake
said on 28 April 2007
Captchas can be quite impossible. I think that that sites should use a randomly generated math formula written in a mix of letters and numbers, “such as eleven + 3 is what?” that is different each time.
Nick
said on 29 April 2007
Hey I’m pretty sure that you need to reverse the letters and then twist them upside down, then multiply and divide by the cosine of the nearest integer and there you have your code for registration. Pretty nifty!
Mark
said on 29 April 2007
Love that image. I wouldn’t have a clue personally. :)
I’d personally think that no matter how nasty it is for these challenge response thingys to be around, they are better than comment span… I’d like to a series of pictures, maybe 3 or more, where the user was asked which one is the “cat” (or whatever)? Is there a reason why this hasn’t been done before? Or has it?
iamkeir
said on 30 April 2007
I find the ‘please type (insert word of choice here) in the input box’ works better than any captcha I have used. My forum isn’t used by thousands so it isn’t hit hard by spam but the open field seems to be hard to guess.
iamkeir
said on 30 April 2007
Oh and I am not sure I agree that the large U is in ‘rich colour’?
Sanjit
said on 30 April 2007
@tesla
Hahahah!! Even i think it’s TRUE!!
Quite confusing.. I guess they have entries only for Captcha crackers or for they are really scared of forum bots!!
Comments
ds
said on 26 April 2007I’m going with KON1WTUBU
man, that sucks…
tesla
said on 26 April 2007Read between the lines, :-) they didn’t want you to join.
iamkeir
said on 26 April 2007Hahaha, for real :)
sangramtheroot
said on 26 April 2007i think it is KON1TUBU
James Pain
said on 27 April 2007It’s only the letters with rich colour so…
KON1TUB
Chico
said on 27 April 2007I agree with James, that’s the only logical possibility.
Tom
said on 27 April 2007I love the way this has turned in to a competition to work out what it was :) I’m not sure that was the purpose of the post…. meerly to point out how stupid captchas can be.
Gregory Perry
said on 27 April 2007Yeah, I agree that it’s KON1TUB, all of the other symbols are faded.
This kind of thing just shows how ridiculous current CAPTCHAs are, many are solvable by machines, I can even imagine a way that this one could be solved.
The best way I can think of is to have a nearly infinite set of images of dictionary words, like “duck”, “fish”, etc. (Easier said than done.) If the images weren’t ever shown twice, the machine would have to be amazingly intelligent to pass, where a human would have little difficulty.
“What is this a picture of?”
Jake
said on 28 April 2007Captchas can be quite impossible. I think that that sites should use a randomly generated math formula written in a mix of letters and numbers, “such as eleven + 3 is what?” that is different each time.
Nick
said on 29 April 2007Hey I’m pretty sure that you need to reverse the letters and then twist them upside down, then multiply and divide by the cosine of the nearest integer and there you have your code for registration. Pretty nifty!
Mark
said on 29 April 2007Love that image. I wouldn’t have a clue personally. :)
I’d personally think that no matter how nasty it is for these challenge response thingys to be around, they are better than comment span… I’d like to a series of pictures, maybe 3 or more, where the user was asked which one is the “cat” (or whatever)? Is there a reason why this hasn’t been done before? Or has it?
iamkeir
said on 30 April 2007I find the ‘please type (insert word of choice here) in the input box’ works better than any captcha I have used. My forum isn’t used by thousands so it isn’t hit hard by spam but the open field seems to be hard to guess.
iamkeir
said on 30 April 2007Oh and I am not sure I agree that the large U is in ‘rich colour’?
Sanjit
said on 30 April 2007@tesla
Hahahah!! Even i think it’s TRUE!!
Quite confusing.. I guess they have entries only for Captcha crackers or for they are really scared of forum bots!!
popescu
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slyfox
said on 4 May 2007I think they want you to read the black “N1TUB” or “N1WTUB”
Guillaume
said on 10 May 2007Ah ah ah, this made my day :)
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