Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart used in form validation to restrict access to humans only

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CAPTCHA Weakness to Automated Attack

EDIT: This question was dumb, I misread the quote that made me ask it. Sorry. This is more of a follow up question from schroeder's answer to another question. schroeder said that CAPTCHAs are ...
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Should I enforce a password policy on a web site?

For a commercial web site, is it important to impose some restriction on passwords to access the system? Eg. special $char, Upper and lower case, numbers, at least a minimum length... Can a CAPTCHA ...
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Can a Javascript - WebGL proof of work system prevent website spam?

Is it a good idea to come up with a Javascript-based Proof of Work system to reduce spam on forums, and other websites? This idea would be similar to HashCash, but the computation would be based on ...
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Good ways to prevent spammers from registering [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is there a true alternative to using CAPTCHA images? Since everyone hates captchas what are good alternatives? I'm looking to prevent the automated creation of accounts ...
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Is there a true alternative to using CAPTCHA images?

Security is about balancing costs and risks, nothing is impossible to beat, specially not typical CAPTCHA implementations, but they do add something no other system seems to offer. I've been reading ...
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If we know CAPTCHA can be beat, why are we still using them?

If we know CAPTCHA can be beat, why are we still using them? A 35% to 90% success rate like wikipedia is stating means software is better at solving CAPTCHAs then I am.
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Why Do we Need CAPTCHA? In what case we should use it?

In what case we should implement Captcha based security?. How accurate it is and if there exists any alternatives for Captcha based Security.
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Protect database resources from fake data inputs via web forms

Scenario: I'm working on a project that needs to accept large amounts of data (customer data) from its users. So it can be normal to have a user trying to add 10,000 or 100,000 records at a time. In ...
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How does CAPTCHA mitigate DDoS attacks?

This seems like an easy question, but I've failed to find an answer. One of the uses of CAPTCHA is to cope mitigate Denial of Service attacks. Suppose an adversary performs excessive login attempts, ...
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CAPTCHA or email confirmation?

I have read that captcha isn't a perfect solution to protect a website where for example the user can create an account, since there are many people in different countries that practicallty read ...
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Is it possible to break captcha? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Can a CSRF CAPTCHA be defeated? Is it to possible break captcha? If yes, how? If no, why websites use difficult captcha systems?
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Are these email captchas legitimate?

The last week, I've been getting this kind of emails to addresses that I don't use: Dear Sir, Madam, For security reasons and as part of our ongoing fight against spam, it is our policy not ...
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How reliable/secure is QCaptcha?

QCaptcha is an alternative way to protect a website from bots. It required a drag and drop action like this: Question How reliable is this implementation when compared to others mentioned on ...
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Can a CSRF CAPTCHA be defeated?

One defense that developers use to protect against a CSRF attack is to implement a CAPTCHA in critical steps. A CAPTCHA ensures that a human is at the keyboard approving the activity. But I've ...
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Why re-verify with CAPTCHA on failed form entry?

Is there a reason for sites to ask for another CAPTCHA verification when some other part of the registration form, e.g. the username, was invalid?
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What type of captcha will you recommend?

What type of captcha will you recommend? I am looking mainly at usability, ease of use (development too), relatively secure Usability I find that those captcha with very curly words/numbers are ...
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Anyone using Asirra in production? Are there similar alternatives?

The Asirra project is a Captcha alternative that shows you pictures of kittens and puppies to fend off bots and prove that the end user is a human. Is anyone using Asirra (or something similar) in ...