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Thelasko
December 10th, 2009, 10:36 PM
I'm developing a new CAPTCHA system, because I've found that current CAPTCHA technology is just too difficult for many users.

My new CAPTCHA system involves watching a clip of the Swedish Chef (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_Yf4zz-yo) and typing what he says into a box below it.

What do you think?
Pogeymanz
December 10th, 2009, 10:43 PM
Anything would be better than those damn text-on-a-pattern-background things. I'm surely a robot.
befana
December 10th, 2009, 10:50 PM
That will be difficult (impossible) for people who don't know English and for deaf people.
Mr. Picklesworth
December 10th, 2009, 10:53 PM
Nah, that's too easy. Bork bork bork (http://www.darkshire.net/~jhkim/muppets/borker.html)! :)

(Am I seriously the only one who gets the joke?)

reCaptcha works nicely, and has a positive mission to boot. I always feel good when I fill one of those out.

http://recaptcha.net/
slumbergod
December 10th, 2009, 10:54 PM
I usually have sound muted and I wouldn't watch a video (maybe an animated gif is ok though).

It sounds lazy but if I get a captcha image I can't read (i.e. is that an upper case or lower case letter?????), or I make a mistake typing it and a new one reloads, I just close the tab and give up.
alphaniner
December 10th, 2009, 10:59 PM
I'm developing a new CAPTCHA system, because I've found that current CAPTCHA technology is just too difficult for many users.

My new CAPTCHA system involves watching a clip of the Swedish Chef (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY_Yf4zz-yo) and typing what he says into a box below it.

What do you think?

Urten-furten-gurten!
Marlonsm
December 10th, 2009, 11:05 PM
I've once heard about a new kind of captcha, but I've never seen it in use, it seems interesting, but it still has some flaws.

The sites shows you a picture and asks "what's in the picture", for example, it shows a picture of a tree you'll have to input "tree".
The problem are synonyms...
Thelasko
December 10th, 2009, 11:32 PM
I've once heard about a new kind of captcha, but I've never seen it in use, it seems interesting, but it still has some flaws.

The sites shows you a picture and asks "what's in the picture", for example, it shows a picture of a tree you'll have to input "tree".
The problem are synonyms...

I think it asks, "Please click on the picture of a tree." The problem is that crackers will just pick one until it works. They don't care if it fails the first time, they have plenty of cycles.