techno.blog("Dion") » captcha http://almaer.com/blog blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:41:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Are you human? http://almaer.com/blog/are-you-human http://almaer.com/blog/are-you-human#comments Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:20:43 +0000 dion http://almaer.com/blog/are-you-human There is another post on tricking spam bots by putting in hidden fields and assuming that if the field is filled out, it was by a bot.

I also saw an image based approach used in Passpack. Instead of having to type something in, you just click on the correct block:

Password App CAPTCHA

Of course this is a constant arms race, and this doesn’t help for blind folk. I did prefer it to normal CAPTCHA.

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