« Will SAFE Force You to Packet Sniff Your Open WAP? Well ... | Main | Ask Unveils History "Eraser" »

December 10, 2007

CAPTCHA Still Rocks, When It Doesn't Suck

Coding Horror: Has CAPTCHA Been "Broken"?:

"Ticketmaster's problem is that their CAPTCHA is not good enough. Programmers don't seem to understand what makes a CAPTCHA difficult to 'break'. But it's not difficult to find out. Heck, the hackers themselves will tell you how to do CAPTCHA correctly if you just know where to look."

Nice chart demonstrating security economics right underneath: A Chinese hacker charges anywhere from $500 to $6,000 for software that cracks assorted CAPTCHA methods. Google, Yahoo and MSN are listed as "unbreakable," and he claims a 50 percent success rate with Ticketmaster.

E-mail   0 Comments    Digg This    add to del.icio.us

Posted by mhall at 5:37 PM | Add Comment

Leave a comment

Name

Email Address

URL

Remember personal info?

Comments (You may use HTML tags for style)

Captcha:

Type the characters you see in the picture above.