Squiggly Words As Used By Craigs List

[katzke]

Anyone hear about the computer guru that came up the squiggly words used by sites like Craigs List to make sure the post is from a person and not computer generated spam.

One word is known and the other one is from one of his projects. He is working on digitizing all written text. The problem is the old books are hard for the computer text recognition software to read. So they have us convert the word for them. If you look one word will be clear and easier to read and the other one will be fuzzy and, well just look different.

I have tested and if you get the real word correct but not the other one you still get accepted.

 

[jonocarroll]

I take it you are referring to the reCaptcha project?

This is a great project, but hopefully isn't subject to the same flaws as the original captcha - using innocent people to circumvent security.

 

[katzke]

I take it you are referring to the reCaptcha project?

This is a great project, but hopefully isn't subject to the same flaws as the original captcha - using innocent people to circumvent security.

I think that was it.