{"id":186,"date":"2009-11-18T12:40:55","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T04:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2009-11-18T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T05:32:08","slug":"captcha-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/captcha-madness\/","title":{"rendered":"Captcha Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187\" style=\"width: 322px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/captcha_if-you_can.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187\" title=\"captcha_if you_can\" src=\"http:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/captcha_if-you_can.png\" alt=\"Captcha If You Can\" width=\"332\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/captcha_if-you_can.png 332w, https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/captcha_if-you_can-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Captcha If You Can<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I understand what captchas are for, and why we need them, but they seem to be getting out of control. I recently visited a site which had the captcha displayed here.<\/p>\n<p>For the record the first word wasn't 'stirred'. I saw the option for an audio captcha and wondered how you pronounce 'Ohehyahtah'. If that indeed was the second word. Too good to miss. I pressed the button and found that the audio captcha is just as bizzarrely impenetrable as the text. The mp3 file of it is <a href=\"http:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/gobbledegook.mp3\">here<\/a>, and it reminded me strongly of an early David Lynch film]. Back to the text: after refreshing the words two or three times I was eventually able to get to the next stage.<\/p>\n<p>The next stage involved typing a random string of letters into a box &#8211; approximately 200 characters. The web page did kindly suggest that I could cut and paste them into the box, which I did, but really, what this did was turn a quick attempt to give someone some feedback on their blog into a task akin to hacking into NASA.<\/p>\n<p>Security shouldn't be that hard. It should be as unobtrusive as possible. Roll on the next anti-bot paradigm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand what captchas are for, and why we need them, but they seem to be getting out of control. I recently visited a site which had the captcha displayed here. For the record the first word wasn't 'stirred'. I saw the option for an audio captcha and wondered how you pronounce 'Ohehyahtah'. If that &#8230; <a title=\"Captcha Madness\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/captcha-madness\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Captcha Madness\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,5],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-life","category-security","tag-captcha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}