December 2010
Intermediate to advanced
363 pages
12h 21m
English
Given the complexity and difficulty of using advanced captcha techniques, we confine ourselves to using the simplest kind of visual captcha, which presents a nondistorted (or minimally distorted) image of a word to a user, who must enter that word into a form. Such a challenge is capable of being used effectively in the vast majority of situations, and is unlikely to exclude many legitimate users.
There can be no question that the simplest way to use a captcha is to let someone else do all the work. We are now seeing commercial web services that, for a fee, will allow you to incorporate a captcha challenge based on their servers into your website. ...
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