[PEPr] -1 for Text::Text_CAPTCHA_Numeral
| From: | Arpad Ray | Date: | Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:10:14 +0000 |
| Subject: | [PEPr] -1 for Text::Text_CAPTCHA_Numeral | ||
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Arpad Ray (http://pear.php.net/user/arpad) has voted -1 on the proposal for
Text::Text_CAPTCHA_Numeral.
Proposal information:
http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=451
Vote information:
http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-vote-show.php?id=451&handle=arpad
Comment:
I think this concept completely defeats the point of a CAPTCHA, which is
supposed to be very difficult for computers to read. Normal CAPTCHAs are
tackled with sophisticated image filtering, OCR and neural networks,
whereas breaking this just requires a trivial text scan.
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