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[nycphp-talk] Old subject new day - Pear Captcha

tedd tedd at sperling.com
Sat Jun 14 09:21:42 EDT 2008


At 8:37 AM -0400 6/14/08, Rolan Yang wrote:
>The captcha has succeeded in stopping any futher spam from hitting 
>my clients comment board. I've read, however, that something as 
>simple as a fixed image and a request to retype the displayed word 
>is sufficient (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000712.html)
>
>~Rolan

That really depends upon how popular the attraction is. The more 
popular the site, the more incentive for spammers to break it.

Here's some of my examples:

http://webbytedd.com/aa/assorted-captcha/

They all work, but they all can be broken as well.

Cheers,

tedd

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