Site Security Code

[Skuggomann]

on a side note bradster, i just watched my first 2 episodes of dexter yesterday, great show!

its not just gerat, its holy XD an just w8 it gets sooo much better in the second half of the season

[Blubber]

Well, CAPTCHAs can be broken so making it as hard (for the time being) for spammers to join would be the goal.

Why not a system that askes you questions about the implicit properties of an object? Something a computer would not know but a basic English speaker would know?

Nonsensical stuff that a computer can't just parse or memorize a list of and answer (at least for a few years).

What is the color of sadness? (Blue)
What does the A stand for in EULA? (Agreement)
What is the flavor or sweat? (Salty)
What is the worst class in WoW? (Paladin)
Complete the sentence: World of _____. (Warcraft)
Complete the word: Mul(__)boxing. (ti)

Etc..... :whistling:

Sounds like a plan. However, three is one problem, you either have to let the user type the answer (which is error prone, certainly for peoples whos native language isn't english), or you have to make it multiple chance, which opens it up to 'brute force' type of attacks.

[Ashley]

In regards to a few previous comments and questions,

I assume the CAPTCHA is there to stop people from trying to sign into someones account with a wrong password thus making it inactive.

[Gallo]

In regards to a few previous comments and questions,

I assume the CAPTCHA is there to stop people from trying to sign into someones account with a wrong password thus making it inactive.

CAPTCHA is meant to prevent people from automatically registering to the forums and posting spam. I've never seen it for logging in.

[Majestic_Clown]

CAPTCHA has been disabled for logins but remains for registeration.

If any issues with spam it will be enabled again.

[Slats]

I want to agree how much I fucking HATE these things. As someone who is visually impaired/legally blind and uses Windows Magnifier to use a computer everytime I see one of those boxes I want to smash all my monitors.

Fortuantly I have my own PC at work and it never seems to log me out.

-Dan

[wowphreak]

Why not implement something along the line of asking the user to pick out a certain picture?

say for instance "pick out the square" and have a pick of 5 different shapes.
or "pick the object with 4 sides"

or ask "whats the word in 2 paragraph 3 sentence 5 word in the sentence" and grab some random text from somewhere

Basically implementing any kind of custom "captcha" turing test what ever yeh wanna call it
will avoid 99.9% of all the automated spamming due to the fact that someone will have to go out of there
way to figure it out and then create a program specifically for it to automate the spamming.