Comments on: Good Google - Accessibility Technologies and CAPTCHA http://blog.merjis.com/2006/11/30/good-google-accessibility-technologies-and-captcha/ Effective Internet Marketing Strategy and Technique Through Experiments, Measurement and Audit Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:16:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: Jeremy Chatfield http://blog.merjis.com/2006/11/30/good-google-accessibility-technologies-and-captcha/#comment-185 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:00:50 +0000 http://blog.merjis.com/2006/11/30/good-google-accessibility-technologies-and-captcha/#comment-185 Well - damn - you're right. All those people telling me that character recognition was a tricky problem, defeated by raw power of spam. I guess if I'd ever deployed CAPTCHA, I'd have known. :) I wonder if there's a way to get spammers to tackle any other issues in AI. AI is *always* 10 years away... Well - damn - you’re right. All those people telling me that character recognition was a tricky problem, defeated by raw power of spam. I guess if I’d ever deployed CAPTCHA, I’d have known. :)

I wonder if there’s a way to get spammers to tackle any other issues in AI. AI is *always* 10 years away…

]]> by: John K http://blog.merjis.com/2006/11/30/good-google-accessibility-technologies-and-captcha/#comment-184 Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:43:51 +0000 http://blog.merjis.com/2006/11/30/good-google-accessibility-technologies-and-captcha/#comment-184 Actually, in the spam wars, long means 1 week, not 1 or 10 years. Spammers & hackers have already perfected ways to defeat most CAPTCHAs without much hassle. So now, CAPTCHAs are mostly impediments for the normal user. Similarly, anyone who thinks they are protecting their email by using: bob (at) bla (dot) com or anything similar, is simply naive. In fact, do a google search like this: *(at)*(dot) and you'll see you've just made it insanely to find those emails :) Actually, in the spam wars, long means 1 week, not 1 or 10 years.

Spammers & hackers have already perfected ways to defeat most CAPTCHAs without much hassle.

So now, CAPTCHAs are mostly impediments for the normal user.

Similarly, anyone who thinks they are protecting their email by using:

bob (at) bla (dot) com

or anything similar, is simply naive. In fact, do a google search like this:

*(at)*(dot)

and you’ll see you’ve just made it insanely to find those emails :)

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