pr0gr4mm3r — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 20:15:34 +0000

captcha scripts work just fine as long as yours is unique. No programmer is going to write a program to crack your captcha script unless you are as big as eBay or Google.

Example: I has spam problems on a phpBB board because the bots were getting past the captcha - probably because every phpBB board on the net uses the same one. Because of this, it was worth it to a spammer to crack it. All I had to so was modify a variable that affected the spacing between the characters in the image. I haven't has a bot register since, and I was getting up to 15 automated registrations a day.

demonhale — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:41:21 +0000

teamatt means you use an image captcha wherein the form provides an image of a flower and the security question asks "What do you see in the picture below" then randomly changes pictures and questions.. I tried it and it works, but errors often occur on the human side... Same with a mathematical captcha, where the security question is like, "what is 5 multiplied by 3 minus 10" and then the user provides the answer. All of them have there downsides.

On the link I provided, few users get the captcha wrong since it uses a library of known words... The bots don't get to it due to the protections applied by the author as you can read on their site. Try it and see for yourself... Also the only way the bots figured out these captchas on other sites is because they provide free random downloads (pornography) on some of their sites, and iframe your captcha and let a human input the codes so that they can override yours...

teammatt3 — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:57:19 +0000

No Tim, don't implement a normal captcha! Those things need to go extinct. The ones that were easy to read went by the wayside because bots could read them... so they got pretty much impossible to read. I swear I have to type them in three or four times to get them right (if they have a handicap thing I always use that instead). You should get the cool captchas that have an image of kitty and some other objects and make the person check the box next to the kitty cat. Much better, but I don't know how effective they are.

timjpriebe — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:18:56 +0000

I had never heard that term, but yes, that's exactly what I'm looking for. I'll have to download that one and try it out.

demonhale — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:51:56 +0000

You mean a captcha? There are a bunch out there but I recommend puremango.co.uk...