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// edit: sense of humour failure. I care too much about blocking spam :) Sorry, but this is harder for humans than bots. The logos are quite distinct and not
by pornel 11y ago
// edit: sense of humour failure. I care too much about blocking spam :)
Sorry, but this is harder for humans than bots.
The logos are quite distinct and not randomly deformed, so it's easy for even a simple image recognition algorithms to tell them apart.
And the set is very small (for this problem anything smaller than millions is very small), so it's feasible to manually tag enough images for bots to brute force it.
- colinbartlett 11y agoI agree and thought the whole thing was a joke? A satire on the illegibility of metal band logos?
- ablation 11y agoI think it was intended in good humor, not necessarily as a secure alternative to regular captcha.
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- Ocerge 11y agoThis is the most Hacker News-possible response to what is clearly a fun project for somebody.
- troymc 11y agoActually, behind the scenes, they have a graphic designer madly making up new bands and band logos in real time. Just kidding. I wonder if something similar would be possible though? Maybe step 1 of a Captcha is to "write something sloppily" so that software can't read it (and they check). Step 2 is to read someone else's writing. Step 3 is to wait for someone else to read your Captcha from Step 1. Step 4 is to fume about the terrible user experience.
- primigenus 11y agoIf you had just posted the comment without "Sorry, but" at the beginning it would have been a great additional insight rather than disparaging to the OP :)