OoO Peu avant le début de l'après-midi du mardi 26 août 2008, vers 13:06, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> disait : >> reCAPTCHA helps prevent automated abuse of web sites (such as comment >> spam or bogus registrations) by using a CAPTCHA to ensure that only >> humans perform certain actions. > I see others are commenting on other language, so I shan't. However, > the above description is misleading: not all humans can pass a > reCAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA does not prevent automated abuse - there are > reports on the BBC and so on of spammers using human proxies. Also, > nothing in reCAPTCHA tries to detect comment spam or bogus > registrations, so they are misleading examples. Hi! About "not all humans can pass a reCAPTCHA", reCAPTCHA also supports audio test. > I'd suggest:- > reCAPTCHA hinders automated abuse of web sites by using a CAPTCHA to > try to ensure that humans are involved. Here is the new description: Description: client library for reCAPTCHA and Mailhide This Python package provides modules implementing clients for both reCAPTCHA and reCAPTCHA Mailhide. . reCAPTCHA hinders automated abuse of web sites (such as comment spam or bogus registrations) by using a CAPTCHA to try to ensure that humans are involved. . reCAPTCHA Mailhide allows web sites to obfuscate email addresses, revealing them only if a reCAPTCHA is solved. . These modules access a web service that requires sites running the reCAPCHA client to register (at no cost) for an API key. On the other hand, no imaging libraries or complex computations are needed to generate and check CAPTCHAs. I have left the example about "comment spam and bogus registrations" because I believe that reCAPTCHA provides a way to detect those: a comment is considered as spam if the CAPTCHA is not solved correctly. I believe this is a form of detection. Thanks. -- I WILL NOT GREASE THE MONKEY BARS I WILL NOT GREASE THE MONKEY BARS I WILL NOT GREASE THE MONKEY BARS -+- Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 7F17
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