captchas

Google working on picture-based captcha to save us from ourselves

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/dlinkcaptcha.jpg" />You'll recall that, about a year ago, we decided to make captchas—those things you find on Web sites at login t

Using captchas to digitize old, damaged books

Those dumb captchas may actually serve a purpose now. A gentleman by the name of Luis von Ahn at Carnegie Mellon University (Biggs went there!) has devised a system whereby software-unreadable words a

Basically, you need a doctorate to understand captchas now

What’s the deal with captchas? Check out this one from Rapidshare. I need to do what, find the letter with the little cat? I’m sorry, but did we lose a war? Do you know how crushing it is