Re: Comment Spam: new trends, failing counter-measures and why it's a big deal

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:09:48 +0100, php0t said:

> the global solution against word recognition based challenges? If it was
> like that, it would mean that there is no way anybody could make an
> image generator that would change its success rate from 90% to 0%...

It's *really* *really* difficult to produce a graphic image of letters
and numbers that is still recognizable to a human but can't be beaten by
a good edge-detection algorithm.  For instance, you can "bleed" the edges
so that they're fuzzy - but then the human has a hard time telling if
it's an 'i' or an 'l', or an 'h' or a 'b' (and so on).

I suppose you *could* put up a picture of something, and ask "What is this
a picture of" - but then you need a sufficiently large library of images that
an attacker can't just download all of them and have a human name each one once.
And of course, this has the danger that a user can be left saying: "WTF? Is
that an antelope or a gazelle?"....

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