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But it's a moot point, since anyone who really wants to defeat captchas en masse, can just go mechanical turk, or even better just setup their own 'porn/warez'
by axod 18y ago
But it's a moot point, since anyone who really wants to defeat captchas en masse, can just go mechanical turk, or even better just setup their own 'porn/warez' sites etc to show your captchas and have random internet users solve it for them.
There's no defense against that... Which makes captchas just a big irritating bag of fail.
- irrelative 18y agoIndeed! In my experience, the best captcha is asking for a credit card number.
- cdr 18y agoIn the same vein, the best captcha is not letting anyone sign up at all.
- rarrrrrr 18y agoI think of it as similar to a home security system. Of course there are ways around it. Chances are that the effort involved means that a burglar will go rob a neighbor's house instead though. Perhaps captchas make more sense in capital intensive industries with clear avenues for abuse. In the case of SpiderOak, we'd prefer to avoid making the free backup accounts an attractive prospect for warez distribution. YMMV.