Posted by Jon Slaughter on 05/10/07 10:03

"Rami Elomaa" <rami.elomaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "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.
>

And? So you think they can read normal captchas too? if they are dyslexic
then chances are they can actually read them easier because there is
context... so you don't have to read letter for letter but just get the
question.

Dyslexia is an excuse for stupid people.

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