Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy

Re:Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy by throwaway1979 on Thursday June 14, 2012 @10:21AM (#4111447)

Google's captcha system is horrid. I've mentioned this to people on the accessibility team but to no avail. They used to have a wheel chair icon next to the bloody scrambled text. I taught a computer class to seniors and it was painful watching them deal with the account sign up process (also, I thought it was insulting asking a mobile senior to click on the wheel chair icon ... to the designer ... FU!). Clicking on the wheel chair would give audio that barely made any sense to me. The whole process was stupid.

Like many others, I can barely get through their captcha service. I'm actually happy people circumvented it. Maybe someone will think it through this time around.

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Re:Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy by aidenn0 on Thursday June 14, 2012 @12:06PM (#4111982)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Symbol_of_Access

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Re:Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy by TazeTSchnitzel on Thursday June 14, 2012 @11:39AM (#4111828)

OK. Show me a CAPTCHA that is easy for humans to read, and very difficult for computers to read.

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Re:Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy by rytis on Friday June 15, 2012 @06:07AM (#4115780)

It shouldn't be about being able to "read". Ideally it should be something that only human could "solve". May be stupid example, but I can't come up with a better one (and if I could, I would be a lot wealthier by now ;) ): show a picture where a forest in landscape is violet and ask a user to identify what's odd on that picture. Another example, show a face with two noses. Ask them to identify the odd item. Things like that. Easy for human, impossible for computers. The problem is that these tasks need to be generated by humans, as I cannot think of any (irreversable) way to do this automatically. May be mechanical turk to the rescue?

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Re:Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy by saraid216 on Thursday June 14, 2012 @02:25PM (#4112780)

> Like many others, I can barely get through their captcha service. I'm actually happy people circumvented it. Maybe someone will think it through this time around.

Anytime you're ready, we're listening.

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Re:Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy by entropy_ on Thursday June 14, 2012 @11:44AM (#4111863)

Well, chances are it'll get even harder now, not easier since they'll need to add further complexity to differentiate humans from bots.

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Re:Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy by tmh88j on Thursday June 14, 2012 @11:36AM (#4111807)

I also thought that was insulting with the wheel chair icon. A person in a wheel chair has problems walking, not (necessarily) their vision. How about "Help" in text?...less confusion and possible anger

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Re:Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy by ceejayoz on Thursday June 14, 2012 @03:01PM (#4112952)

Apparently the wheel chair is actually an ISO standard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Symbol_of_Access

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Re:Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy by DanBC on Thursday June 14, 2012 @05:38PM (#4113638)

But it's a symbol for mobility - not for all disabilities.

There are symbols for visual impairment, but they're not international.

(http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pictograms-nps-access...)

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HfEx4Y_O_Gs/Tf0huVPZBXI/AAAAAAAAAC...)

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Re:Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy by excuse-me on Thursday June 14, 2012 @11:43AM (#4111854)

Since the point of the audio version is not to be hit with lawsuits under the ADA - perhaps it should just be a little icon of a lawyer?

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Re:Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy by PassTheAmmo on Thursday June 14, 2012 @12:12PM (#4112020)

I imaging that whole sites could be designed using only your proposed lawyer icon, possibly with some additional icon representing political correctness.

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Re:Hacking and defeating Google's reCAPTCHA with a 99% accuracy by Graphon on Thursday June 14, 2012 @12:34PM (#4112153)

What's the international symbol for a lawyer?

https://www.google.com/search?q=parasite+icon

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