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RE: CAPTCHA


From: "Rod Divilbiss" <rod () rodsdot com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:17:40 -0600

 reCAPTCHA  http://www.google.com/recaptcha

-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce () securityfocus com 
[mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of Steve Syfuhs
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 7:05 PM
To: Robin Wood; Shang Tsung
Cc: webappsec () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: CAPTCHA

This is a brilliant idea.  Did you come up with it?  If not, 
got any resources?

Sent from my Windows Phone

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Wood
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 7:49 PM
To: Shang Tsung
Cc: webappsec () securityfocus com
Subject: Re: CAPTCHA


On 24 January 2011 15:11, Shang Tsung <shangtsung71 () gmail com> wrote:
We are planning to use a CAPTCHA in order to stop spam engines from 
filling our Online Forms. From a quick research I made, I 
found there 
are good and there are bad types of CAPTCHA.

Does anyone know if there are any standard and secure 
implementations 
of CAPTCHA that we can use?

Any good articles on the subject?

I hate captchas, always have so I use a reverse captcha on 
sites that I build. You add a field to the form with name and 
id of email. You then give it a label that says "Please leave 
blank" and hide them both with CSS. Most people won't see 
them because the CSS works, even if they do see them they 
read the message and obey. Spam engines on the other hand 
spot the email field and happily fill it in. You then 
silently drop any contact forms with values in the email field.

Normal humans aren't affected and you trick most generic bots.

Robin



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