Comments on: Breaking “The Next Big Thing in CAPTCHAs”

By: Tubbus

Tubbus — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:20:36 +0000

I read the comments yesterday and some of them were stupidly harsh. Mostly reddit hypernerds trashing the idea. God forbid.

By: Nuba

Nuba — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:19:58 +0000

Being bold like that and then proved wrong can be a embarrassing situation, but he could have updated his post to reflect the new situation, and acknowledge the fact that geekbynature.tk did break his CAPTCHA.

I think there’s no problem being bold if you have commensurable humility in you. That actually gives you more street cred.

Ironically, it says in http://www.catchmyfame.com/about/ : “The no jerk rule is in effect (i.e. if you don’t have something constructive to add, don’t bother)”. I wonder if “answering successfully to his challenge” qualifies as “being a jerk”. LOL

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:01:57 +0000

Given that the link to “The Next Big Thing in CAPTCHAs” is dead, and under the “recent comments” header, there’s a couple of equally dead links to “Private: The Next Big Thing in CAPTCHAs” apparantly we’re not allowed to know what the next big thing was going to be.

Oh well. If “edge detection” is enough to break it, then the next big thing must have been “make edges hard to detect” and that’s not new anyway.