Cosmetics -- status bar code request

[Borut]

test ("Write this word backwards: OLLEH"). Easy for humans but not for robots.

Why do you regard that as not easy for robots?? Better activate some other security option soon, I would say.

[admin]

test ("Write this word backwards: OLLEH"). Easy for humans but not for robots.

Why do you regard that as not easy for robots?? Better activate some other security option soon, I would say.

You think it's easy for robots? How that?

[Borut]

You think it's easy for robots? How that?

If I would be a developer of registration cracking robots and would ever see such a field on any registration mask, I would add the following logic (here simplified): If input field preceded by instructions text containing 'BACKWARDS', then take everything after ':', possibly without beginning and ending blanks, then produce its backward string and use the result when compiling the answer.

Trivial - most probably just a few additional lines of code at a proper place.

Can't you use CAPTCHA instead? It is very difficult.

[admin]

You think it's easy for robots? How that?

If I would be a developer of registration cracking robots and would ever see such a field on any registration mask, I would add the following logic (here simplified): If input field preceded by instructions text containing 'BACKWARDS', then take everything after ':', possibly without beginning and ending blanks, then produce its backward string and use the result when compiling the answer.

Trivial - most probably just a few additional lines of code at a proper place.

Can't you use CAPTCHA instead? It is very difficult.

I turned CAPTCHA off because I dislike it.

I just changed my test question to something else. Let's see what the robots do with it. I just took 15 seconds of thinking. If this one gets cracked again I'm sure I can devise a sound test within 5 minutes. Comes down to a Turing test, isn't it? The only problem I see is human computer slaves in Cambodia (also for CAPTCHA, by the way). If they exploit smart children in SPAM-factories there is no chance.

[j_c_hallgren]

Can't you use CAPTCHA instead? It is very difficult.

And for someone like me with vision issues, some CAPTCHA vers are almost impossible for me to see! The way that they show chars is the way my right eye sees chars all the time now...and audio options aren't always better.