Re: Going from simple to super CAPTCHA

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 12:01 -0400, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 10:38 -0400, tedd wrote: > > Gnag: > > > > I know we can beat this thing to death, as we have in previous > > threads and I don't anyone wants to travel previously traveled ground. > > > > However, Rob said: > > > > "A good captcha will try to exploit a computer's weaknesses." > > > > So, let's expound on that -- what do you consider to be a computer's weakness? > > Well for instance as humans we can fairly easily recognize similar > shapes. We can recognize an apple whether it is red, green, yellow, has > a stem, has a leaf, is half eaten. A computer might recognize a circle, > and might guess that the circle is an apple based on further analysis. > But we as humans could recognize it as an apple even if we stretched it > a bit so it was no longer circular, or as I said, if it was a crescent > because someone had taken a huge bite out of it. This is something > humans excel at... inferring information from similar previous > experiences. > > Taking the image captcha to a different level, one could combine our > ability to understand language as well as imagery. For instance we could > have an icon repository of animals, vehicles, plants, etc (very obvious > ones anyways). Then to create a captcha we could randomly select X > icons, slightly morph them to spoof matching them within the captcha > image itself, then ask: > > What animal do you see in the above picture? > > I think someone already said microsoft or someone does something > similar. The principle is that we know what generally constitutes an > animal and a computer does not. Similarly, an audio complement would be > to have a background sound of maybe low level radio chatter overlaid > with the sounds of various everyday items... then one could ask: > > What did you hear ringing? > > Possible answers... a bell, the telephone, an alarm, etc. > > The problem then becomes an issue of people who can't spell or are > terrible at recognizing everyday things. I've just been inspired by my childhood... Sesame Street CAPTCHA... "Which of these things doesn't belong" :) Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'