Facts about CAPTCHAs and reCAPTCHAs
Today this blog will be about some common facts about CAPTCHAs. BLOG BY SIMON What is a Captcha? According to Wikipedia , Captcha is abbreviated to " C ompletely A utomated P ublic T uring test to tell C omputers and H umans A part " Basic functions of a captcha is to felicitate to make sure that a website user is actually human, because computers had (and to an extent, are still having) a tough time reading text like that. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now majority of people will be wondering - "Why to waste so much human effort to solve a naive CAPTCHA ?" Answer to such question can be easily speculated that in old days(when COMPUTERS and INTERNET was limited to mere group of people) , humans(particularly HACKERS and CRYPTOGRAPHERS),wanted to maximize the understanding of computers by giving computers hard time. Credits- WIKIPEDIA -...
