Re:Apple using moving letters as captcha
by lachenmayer on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @06:40AM
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They don't really have to be tuned for motion, you can just consider each frame individually.
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With this implementation you don't, but it's not hard to construct it such that there is no single frame with enough information to construct the whole message. If you screen capture there are several frames where you really can't tell what the middle letter is, but it's obvious what the message is.
The real issue is a computer can compare the images individually and combine them so if it get's 'G_G', 'GF_', and '_FG' it's going to assume 'GFG'.
Re:Apple using moving letters as captcha
by joelthelion on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @07:02AM
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In that case you don't gain anything from the motion (except maybe the ability to vote between your bot's output for the individual frames, but that also makes your bot 20 times slower).