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Saturday, September 5, 2009
Random Stuff

How Well Do You Really Know Your Significant Other?

4:45AM Adam Frucci | It just never hurts to take the test. I’m just saying. [xkcd via The Daily What]
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Design

Dream Captcha: Type The Characters You See Here For Nightmare Protection

2:30AM John Mahoney | Spam bots deserve every nightmare. Jeffrey Augustine’s Dream Captcha updates a familiar faux-cultural symbol with the security layer consumers expect from their nocturnal hallucination protection device. [Jeffrey Augustine via Neat-o-Rama] More »
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Online

Gmail CAPTCHA Cracked in Teams; Bots Get ‘Tude

1:30AM Wilson Rothman | Cracking Yahoo’s CAPTCHA human verification may have been a major security-breach milestone, but now bots have been tag-teaming in pairs to crack Google’s Gmail human test too, which they currently can pull off one in five attempts. During the crack, they also appear, somewhat snarkily, to read Google’s help pages, perhaps as a means of preventing a timeout. [Slashdot] More »
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007
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Anti-Spam Turing Test Is Really Global Human-Powered OCR System

11:25PM Wilson Rothman | You know the test you have to take on Digg or Facebook, the one that proves you’re a human? You see a hard-to-read word or string of gibberish, and you type in the correct characters. Carnegie Mellon researchers decided to replace randomly generated words with actual words from ancient manuscripts, words that machines are having trouble deciphering. When you or millions of other users type in a word, you are beating a machine and helping to preserve an irreplaceable text. More »
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