Captcha.nsa.gov

Re:Captcha.nsa.gov by captainmuon on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:02PM (#22226945)

You can do that? I would expect Google to flag connections to the search page that don't terminate on a residential/commercial IP as suspicious and show you the near "unsolvable" captcha.

At least that is my experience with proxying google services (e.g. silly setup for accessing them from China). Datacenter IPs or SSL "MitM" connections reliably trigger it.

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Re:Captcha.nsa.gov by penagwin on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:59PM (#22227615)

Anecdotal, and I'm guessing it's because I was logged in (to my long standing personal Google account) - but I didn't have any issues when I was VPN'd through a Vultr vps of mine when I was in my dorm.

Again I'm guessing it's because I was logged in, from google chrome.

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Re:Captcha.nsa.gov by FDSGSG on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:04PM (#22226974)

Depends very much on which datacenter you're using. I'd imagine google doesn't get much (any) bot traffic from Akamai, so I'm not surprised that their ranges aren't flagged yet.

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Re:Captcha.nsa.gov by jjeaff on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:43PM (#22227425)

But all it takes is a few dozen queries in fast succession and google will start showing a captcha. At least, that is how it seemed to be a few years ago.

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Re:Captcha.nsa.gov by ryanlol on Monday February 03, 2020 @03:13PM (#22228462)

Akamai rotates their source IPs a lot so you wouldn’t get a captcha very fast.

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Re:Captcha.nsa.gov by tempestn on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:45PM (#22227459)

I wonder how many people are currently submitting queries via that page...

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Re:Captcha.nsa.gov by VectorLock on Monday February 03, 2020 @01:27PM (#22227262)

I'd love to know what the distribution of tries on the "unsolvable" captcha is when served to real people operating in good faith.

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