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AOL Mail uses many security measures to keep your account secure, one of which is CAPTCHA or image challenges when sending mail. These challenges exist to make it harder for hackers to access your accounts. The characters can't be read by a computer and must be entered manually, ensuring only a real person can pass the test. Why am I being ...
reCAPTCHA Inc. [1] is a CAPTCHA system owned by Google.It enables web hosts to distinguish between human and automated access to websites. The original version asked users to decipher hard-to-read text or match images.
This CAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA v1) of "smwm" obscures its message from computer interpretation by twisting the letters and adding a slight background color gradient.A CAPTCHA (/ ˈ k æ p. tʃ ə / KAP-chə) is a type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human in order to deter bot attacks and spam.
The most widely used anti-bot technique is CAPTCHA. Examples of providers include Recaptcha, Minteye, Solve Media and NuCaptcha. However, captchas are not foolproof in preventing bots, as they can often be circumvented by computer character recognition, security holes, and outsourcing captcha solving to cheap laborers. [citation needed]
The "captcha challenges" in this article, in both the 2007 and 2009 examples, are not a single challenge as the text makes them out to be but the computer generated words from two separate captchas put onto a single image. This is relatively easy to tell with experience, and is both inaccurate and annoying.
The computer that provides the CAPTCHA only knows the correct response to one of the words, but the human is asked to enter both. The unknown word comes from an old newspaper article or scientific document that another computer had a difficult time converting to a digital format.
He is well known for work on the Isomap embedding algorithm, CAPTCHA challenges, Cover Trees for nearest neighbor search, Contextual Bandits (which he coined [2]) for reinforcement learning applications, [3] and learning reductions. [4] John is the author of the blog hunch.net and the principal developer of Vowpal Wabbit.