Captcha that Google


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Google may soon be able to read text on the images and videos on your website. They patented an application which has the capability of doing that. This could turn out great for the search engine giant (in terms of new ways to index pages). But one thing scares me. If there is such a program, then what happens when it gets into the hands of evil? What do I mean by evil, you ask? I mean spam bots of course. If a program is so advanced that it could read text off of ordinary images, then that means it could certain tackle any captcha. I know there are already some programs which can do this, but those can only decipher very simple captchas like the ones phpbb 2 used (I am not sure if phpbb 3 uses the same ones). On the other hand these bots can read text off of any old image, so captchas are certainly not a problem. That’s scary! But on the bright side, this will lead to development of new security features and maybe that means we won’t have to type in those stupid little letters and get tricked by them ever again!

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January 8, 2008 | Filed Under Google 

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6 Responses to “Captcha that Google”

  1. Martin on MyAvatars 0.2 January 9th, 2008 1:36 pm

    It is so difficult to read google captcha sometimes
    http://www.spymac.com/details/?2321924

  2. Dave Lucas on MyAvatars 0.2 January 9th, 2008 2:08 pm

    I agree with Martin. Next: you’ll have to “name that tune” by listening to a song and typing in the title to verify your presence online… maybe???

  3. wiseassoffice on MyAvatars 0.2 January 9th, 2008 4:45 pm

    Testing Captcha

  4. Grant Glendinning on MyAvatars 0.2 January 9th, 2008 10:43 pm

    The problem lies with spammers, and the need to overcome captcha’s. I personally feel Google announcing this only goes to show they enjoy listing spam sites in their index.

  5. Martin on MyAvatars 0.2 January 9th, 2008 11:15 pm

    But you can do it in other ways, for example the captcha here is not hard to read. Google is very hard sometimes… letters are so twisted!

  6. marius on MyAvatars 0.2 January 10th, 2008 2:36 am

    tahnk god. i always type the wrong numbers/letters…changing that will be a gift. i hope it will also be able to count…for the other anti spam things.

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