Apr 1, 2013

Anti-CAPTCHA

CAPTCHAs are manipulated words that you have to type in correctly to prove that you are a human. They are designed to be difficult to read so a computer cannot recognize the letters. The idea is to prove the person using a site or typing in a password is in fact a person.


D&B, a site offering credit reports, also has CAPTCHAs. 


Except that D&B's CAPTCHA is just a fake. The secret text is included in the HTML code. So a computer can definitely read it.

In some ways, D&B has created a way to tell computers and humans apart. Computers can read it and humans cannot.

http://svedic.org/programming/worst-captcha-ever was the first person to identify the flaw.

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