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From: Mallory van Achterberg
Date: Nov 7, 2014 1:26AM

On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 10:19:39PM +0000, Stefan Sollinger wrote:
>
> And finally, this is a joke website making fun of CAPTCHAs:
> http://crapcha.com/
>

A guy wanted to make a CAPTCHA that was "fun" and hoped inborn
knowledge of human hands would be a solution. He posted it to
Sitepoint Forums: http://community.sitepoint.com/t/hand-gesture-captcha/42570

I think he was going for the cognitive aspect of it, but every
response there has as much if not more trouble than traditional
CAPTCHAs.

I suspect there are a lot of smart people still spending time
trying to make these bear-proof tests (or, how about pill
bottles that arthritic people have to ask their toddlers to open
for them), and I think that's a shame. I'd love it if these
smart people were driven to think *outside* CAPTCHA, to the
real problem underneath.

_mallory