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  2. CAPTCHA - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha

    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.

  3. py2exe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Py2exe

    py2exe is a Python extension which converts Python scripts (.py) into Microsoft Windows executables (.exe). These executables can run on a system without Python installed. [3] It is the most common tool for doing so.

  4. Brute-force attack - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack

    In case of online attacks, database and directory administrators can deploy countermeasures such as limiting the number of attempts that a password can be tried, introducing time delays between successive attempts, increasing the answer's complexity (e.g., requiring a CAPTCHA answer or employing multi-factor authentication), and/or locking ...

  5. reCAPTCHA - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA

    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.

  6. John Langford (computer scientist) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Censorship of GitHub - Wikipedia

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    On March 26, 2015, GitHub was the target of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack originating from China. It targeted two anti-censorship projects: GreatFire and cn-nytimes, the latter including instructions on how to access the Chinese version of The New York Times. [18] GitHub blocked China-based IP addresses from visiting these ...

  8. Heartbleed - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed

    An analysis posted on GitHub of the most visited websites on 8 April 2014 revealed vulnerabilities in sites including Yahoo!, Imgur, Stack Overflow, Slate, and DuckDuckGo. [ 85 ] [ 86 ] The following sites have services affected or made announcements recommending that users update passwords in response to the bug:

  9. Talk:ReCAPTCHA/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

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    If the user answers the KNOWN word incorrectly, they fail the captcha. However, if the known word is typed correctly, the user passes the captcha regardless, and the ansswer to the unknown word is passed to the captcha service for evaluation as a possible solution (explained in the article as a points based evaluation).