http://adscaptcha.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:23:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Captcha bots rose to notorious fame with the Wiseguys Tickets scam revealed in March in Newark. The four Californians who were part of the Wiseguys Tickets Company, who earned $25 millions from online tickets deals, using captcha bots, among other technologies, to gain unauthorized access to computer systems, and were ... http://adscaptcha.com/2010/07/29/captcha-bots-and-25m-tickets-scam/ Luis von Ahn, the man behind the automated test differing between humans and computers known as captcha talked on GoogleTech about human computation, the way human cycles can be used to improve computers' intelligence and return to us, humans, in the form of improved web search results, for examples. This ... http://adscaptcha.com/2010/07/26/captcha-originator-on-human-computation/ Recaptcha (or reCAPTCHA) is the system that uses the millions of Captcha texts already deciphered by human internet users for the noble cause of digitizing books, newspaper archives and radio shows. ReCptcha is the little comfort we are given for all those challenging captcha texts; thanks to the time and ... http://adscaptcha.com/2010/07/13/recaptcha-and-books-digitizing/ Capthas are not very visually challenged friendly. When the average sighted internet user who is asked to type a couple of distorted half-erased words often cannot tell between l and I, an o and a 0, just imagine what the bespectacled person has to go through when he is about ... http://adscaptcha.com/2010/07/05/captcha-and-the-visually-challenged/ The recent Stanford University study that showed the difficulties caused by text based captcha to human beings who aim to decipher it, had expectedly pushed forward image based captcha developers. Thus, Confident Technologies has released its image based captcha plugin for Wordpress, stating that product is "easy on people while being ... http://adscaptcha.com/2010/06/27/new-image-captcha-for-wordpress/ According to a recent study made by a group of researchers from Stanford, when comparing humans to robots - humans don’t do too well in deciphering captcha tests. The group took more than 300,000 captchas, all are examples taken from popular web companies such as Yahoo! and Google, and gave them ... http://adscaptcha.com/2010/06/18/captcha-difficult-humans/ This is a list of online resources that have posts about "captcha of the day", something I personally really like. Lot's of meaningless captchas, funny ones and others that will make you smile... My captcha won't allow me to have sex Crazzzzzzzy captchas WTF captcha Not very sensitive captcha Hideous week captcha Shit captcha IRS captcha Political ... http://adscaptcha.com/2010/06/02/captcha-of-the-day/ When Captcha code was first invented, it meant to protect guestbooks, blogs, forums, social platforms, commercial web and so on from bot spam. During the years it has become almost an integral part of our digital lives (most of us get really pissed off when we have to copy those ... http://adscaptcha.com/2010/05/26/captcha-mixing-security-with-art/ What is brand advertising? Brand is a promise, an idea according to which no benefit could be gained by consumer from other products except for the brand he loves. A consumer falls in love with a certain brand, he trusts it and develops a long term loyalty. Brand advertising is nothing but ... http://adscaptcha.com/2010/05/24/brand-advertising-%e2%80%93-its-all-about-trust/ Confident Technologies is a new company created by Curtis Staker and William Goldback that deals with web security and the authentication of site’s users. In the next couple of weeks, Staker and Goldback will release a new Captcha called ConfidentCaptcha which is an image based captcha . The ConfidentCaptcha was born ... http://adscaptcha.com/2010/05/14/confident-captcha-next-captcha/