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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 ...
On August 1, 2010, Chad Houck gave a presentation to the DEF CON 18 Hacking Conference detailing a method to reverse the distortion added to images which allowed a computer program to determine a valid response 10% of the time. [33] [34] The reCAPTCHA system was modified on July 21, 2010, before Houck was to speak on his method. Houck modified ...
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.
In 2007, von Ahn invented reCAPTCHA, [24] a new form of CAPTCHA that also helps digitize books. In reCAPTCHA, the images of words displayed to the user come directly from old books that are being digitized; they are words that optical character recognition could not identify and are sent to people throughout the web to be identified. ReCAPTCHA ...
Alphabet's (GOOG, GOOGL) Google is expanding the availability of reCAPTCHA, and the verification technology will now be able to, for the first time, protect payments.
This makes it more difficult for an intruder to get the passwords, since the password itself is not stored, and it is very difficult to determine a password that matches a given hash. However, this presents a problem for many (but not all) challenge-response algorithms, which require both the client and the server to have a shared secret.
My above comment from April was not questioning the relevance of ReCaptcha. At the time that comment was written ReCaptcha was inappropriately placed in the image recognition section though it is a text-based CAPTCHA. I had moved the ReCaptcha information to a more appropriate section but that change and my other edits were reversed.
If there is a software exists which defeats reCaptcha, we should not hide that fact. Lets discuss here first. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Deepbluepanther (talk • contribs) 13:14, 23 November 2009 (UTC) I searched Google with the key "reCaptcha Solver" and got the site www.rajtuhin.com in results in first page. Why some editors are ...