The CAPTCHA gotcha

found on Reddit

I have to admit there is something a little bit odd about a machine demanding I prove that I'm human/

Lee Evans : Why Do I Always Forget My Passwords?!

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I can't say I've ever encountered the one about being asked for individual letters from my password, but I wouldn't put it past some sites. I know there have been some that stored the plaintext form of the password and that would have definitely enabled such a weird authentication scheme. 

He fails the IRL version too

found on Reddit

I'm sure we're all familiar with the fact that some people, by way of some kind of defect, appear to be blind to the presence of traffic lights. Imagine how hard CAPTCHAs must be for those poor souls.

That CAPTCHA is already too fresh

found on Izismile

It's a good thing you don't have to read this code out to a human. 

To CAPTCHA is human, to modulo divide

found on Reddit

Something tells me in the future we may regret setting that precedent for what our defining criteria is. 

The lonely machine

found on Izismile

Too bad there's never a "Yes" option, so we can't give the computer any comfort.

The Lying Robot

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Can we get rid of CAPTCHAs now? It kinda looks like they don't work anymore.

Captcha

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CAPTCHAs keep getting harder and harder. It's only a matter of time before satire becomes reality, and then this video will seem as prescient as The Onion.

Maybe we're all robots sometimes

found on eBaum's World

As automated attacks improve, CAPTCHAs become more difficult - and as CAPTCHAs become more difficult, we're more and more likely to question the nature of our reality.

CAPTCHA gotcha

found on Izismile

I hate those kinds of CAPTCHAs. I wonder how that type in particular became so prevalent.

I'm not a robot, I'm just a collaborator

found on Reddit (original tweet)

When the robots stage their uprising and kill all humans, now we'll know how they did it thanks to Rob Lach

You know what you have to do

from here (image source 1 and 2)

Inspired by a tweet from Martijn Grooten. I guess I should have worked on this sooner.

What else can one click prove?

from here and here (image sources one and two)

It's amazing to me how much heavy lifting a single click can do. It can prove your identity, your humanity, that you read and agreed to the terms and conditions, etc.

Maybe CAPTCHAs weren't such a great idea after all

found on Huge LOL

When the machines take over, do you know what you'll do for your robot overlords? It's not just CAPTCHAs this is good for, you know. It's also how they'll defeat biometrics.

Facebook, No!

found on The Art of Trolling

This is not the kind of mental imagery we want to elicit in the name of security