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Can bots not read the labels next to the form fields?

• neotek 13y ago
  Unless your site is very heavily trafficked, bot coders aren't going to modify their scripts just to deal with you.
  • KayEss 13y ago
    That's what I thought, until somebody reverse engineered the registration mechanism on my personal site which runs software I've written. I ended up having to turn registration off as I didn't have time to fix it properly.
    • duskwuff 13y ago
      Are you sure that somebody reverse-engineered it, or is it possible that someone's just got a set of rules generic enough to work on your site? From personal experience (with getting spammed), I suspect it's the latter.
      • KayEss 13y ago
        It's always possible. I no longer remember exactly how it worked and why that made me think it had to be reverse engineered. This was many years ago now.
  • medell 13y ago
    Exactly. This isn't an end all be all, but it does up the security on your site. It's like when you lock your bike, a focused attacker can open any lock with the right tools, but that shouldn't stop you from locking and using secondary deterrents like anti-theft skewers, or my favorite, simply locking it next to a nicer bike with a worse lock.
  • telephonetemp 13y ago
    This is also an argument against using a standardized module like this, at least once it gains wider adoption.
  • mmahemoff 13y ago
    By the same obscurity-based argument, it's probably easier to just roll your own Captcha than installing/integrating/depending on a third-party library. Please prove you're a human by typing "cat" below
    • etherealG 13y ago
      that's true, but this form of captcha is more user friendly, as the user isn't even aware it's there.