Any idea if it works? I didn't sign up but the T&Cs say "Service will be available from April 15, 2007. Please check back later." I say, if it actually works: Great for spammers, great for users - as hopefully it mean the death of captchas. I much prefer being asked a simple question or to choose the picture of a cat from the 3 images below etc..
From the looks of it, it doesn't seem automated at all, but rather human-labor "workers" will be involved to answer captchas. It probably won't mean the death of captchas, but I've already seen new approaches being taken (such as Identity 2.0 and phone-call verification).
This is not an automated service. Paid labors will solve captas. Anyway this idea is new to me. But be warned. This site is promoting spam and supporting spammers.... nothing more than that...
captcha is random, there is no way to train that, and the technology to disassemble jpg/gif/png digitally is not yet advanced enough ( at lesast in the web programming arena for sure ) to do this task automatically.....
Either way, I hate CAPTCHAs, half the time I get them wrong, and I'm not even colour blind or anything. I feel really sorry for the partially sighted /colour blind people. There has to be a better way to stop spammers.
Lots of captchas can speak aswell as show images, it may be inconvenient, but not as inconvenient as trying to use a forum that's hammered by spambots all day long......
Maybe, but that's no reason to attempt to destroy what is infact a GOOD idea, thier efforts would be better spent in developing the idea of captcha not cracking it......
Most probably the alphanumeric images which are used now would give way to natural language questions which would be easy to answer by the human beings but hard to answer by the machines.
Actually, there is image recognition code advanced enough to handle the task. Some solvers can solve captchas with as high as 100% accuracy, depending on the complexity of the image. Some of the solver bots are getting pretty sophisticated with their OCR technology, and many of the most successful ones use neural network algorithms. Look up PWNtcha. That's one of the better ones. I'm all for stopping spambots, but captchas are a horrible idea IMHO. Not all of them are so easy for Humans to solve on the first try.
http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/ Having looked at that project further, it's not so impressive, they are attacking specific types of capthca image, not capthca in general, the project admits that there are some captcha methods that are undefeat ed/able