How NOT to do CAPTCHAs
Filed under: Humour
Yes, this is a real CAPTCHA that I ran across.
In case it isn't obvious from the picture, or you can't read that small, the text in the CAPTCHA matches the filename, therefore making it trivial to determine what the text says. Further, I tried specifying 6 random characters for the filename and it didn't work, which leads to two possibilities:
- The CAPTCHA images are generated and saved in the root Web directory
- There are a limited number of generated CAPTCHA images
I can't easily tell which one is actually happening, but in both cases there's a serious issue. And funny, too!
December 17th, 2008 at 11:06
Man that is pretty noob! So noob, that the noobs could even tell that its noob.
December 30th, 2008 at 19:27
That is pretty funny actually.
January 5th, 2009 at 14:34
Awesome man, just awesome. I wonder where I can get my hands on that captcha lib!
February 10th, 2009 at 00:55
That's always the first thing I check when I come across new captchas, but I've never seen the text in the file name before, nice find!
Not that any OCR-type program would have trouble figuring this one out, that slightly angled v must really throw them off!
February 10th, 2009 at 09:58
To be honest, this isn't the first time I've seen this. I've also seen people put the right CAPTCHA answer in a cookie or a hidden field.
The slightly angled 'v' is madness. It's the devil's 'v'!