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Love the “captcha” on that site > Spam Control: What's the SF in SFMemory stand for?
by reidjs 3y ago
Love the “captcha” on that site
> Spam Control: What's the SF in SFMemory stand for?
- beej71 3y agoI've often wondered about the effectiveness of simple custom things like "what's the sum of these two numbers?" Maybe couple it with some server-side rotating variable names... Dunno.
- EarlKing 3y agoHonestly those kinds of simple captchas probably aren't all that useful, or won't be useful for very much longer, as people start trying to use ChatGPT to answer them.
- reidjs 3y agoIf it beats the vast majority of botters it’s useful
- beej71 3y agoI'm not even sure that chat GPT is really the answer to these kind of captchas. I figured people would probably do a little bit of custom programming to quickly answer the question and then perform the action. But if everybody writes their own custom challenge, now that's a lot of targets. Whereas right now we've already trained the AI to identify all the stoplights, and that kind of captcha is ubiquitous. They just have to solve it once and then a whole bunch of websites are vulnerable. And most websites aren't actually that high value, for example mine. Is anybody going to spend the time reverse engineering a simple captcha just so they can post comments to my blog that no one reads? :) But if I used something off the shelf that they already have a solution for, then sure they would.
- smcin 3y agoSome people/bots might guess Science Fiction. Or other things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SF