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Re: Alternatives for the CAPTCHA

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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Mar 23, 2009 5:55PM

On 23/3/09 23:47, Keith Parks wrote:
> I always thought a simple math question was a good idea.
>
> "Enter the answer to this question: What does two plus three equal?"
> Then accept either "five" or "5".

Sadly, building a bot to solve such questions would be reasonably easy,
assuming the site in question was worth writing any dedicated code to spam.

Conversely, almost any Turing Test is likely to be good enough for tiny
sites.

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis