Comments on: CAPTCHAs are dead. Now what? http://www.mickmel.com/blog/200810/captchas-are-dead-now-what/ Church marketing, SEO and social media. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anthony Lovell http://www.mickmel.com/blog/200810/captchas-are-dead-now-what/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Anthony Lovell Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:30:28 +0000 http://www.mickmelseo.com/?p=160#comment-200 I am using phpBBS, and have been over 2 years without a spam registrant. My secret? I altered the size of the CAPTCHA image, altered its URL, and edited a few HTML elements that surround it. The spiders that pluck out these images have a unique challenge, and they drop dead. Prior to effecting this change on my site, I was being badly abused. I don't even use email confirmation. It's bulletproof because I'm different and a small target. If everyone took similar aims, and the packages that rely on CAPTCHA offered an easier means by which those deploying these web technologies could confront hackers with a dizzying landscape of diversity, we'd all be better off. I am using phpBBS, and have been over 2 years without a spam registrant. My secret? I altered the size of the CAPTCHA image, altered its URL, and edited a few HTML elements that surround it. The spiders that pluck out these images have a unique challenge, and they drop dead. Prior to effecting this change on my site, I was being badly abused.

I don’t even use email confirmation. It’s bulletproof because I’m different and a small target. If everyone took similar aims, and the packages that rely on CAPTCHA offered an easier means by which those deploying these web technologies could confront hackers with a dizzying landscape of diversity, we’d all be better off.

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