Posted by Rami Elomaa on 05/10/07 08:45

"Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaughter@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I was thinking about a way to use a similar idea but to dramatically
>increase the ability to thawrt bots.
>
> The idea is to use the idea that humans can use context and patterns to
> understand much better than computers in such cases as the following,
>
> http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2004/01/16/mipellssed_wdors.html
>
> So the idea is to ask the user a very simple questions that is written
> using misspelled words and such so that it makes it almost impossible for
> computers to recognize what the answer is. The question can be graphically
> manipulated so that its also visually harder to figure out like a normal
> captcha.
>
> Besides changing the order of the letters in a word one can deliberately
> change letters so that the word doesn't make sense but in the context is
> not difficult for a human. One can even use bad grammar and a few other
> things to make it more difficult.
>
> I was thinking that one could create a very large database of such things
> in different languages that sites could use.
>
> What do you guys think?


You're giving the finger to dyslexic people.

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