New CAPTCHA Simpler and Smarter

Last updated Aug 13, 2015 299

Analyzing the course of action the user on a web page a new system of Google promises to identify any robot that intend to enter information in a form. With technologies CAPTCHA stands for ” completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart ” has tried to stem the action of robots on the Web in the form filing and data input. This system aims to ensure that behind the monitor and keyboard, there is a human being and not an algorithm.

But in this kind of security systems are witnessing for some time now in a constant race, a kind of confrontation between cops and robbers, in which those who try to protect a system is exceeded by those who intend to violate it. So it is also for CAPTCHA whose level of reliability analyzes conducted according to Google is not so high.

It seems that now there are algorithms that can correctly interpret the letters distorted :

In some cases even words of sense.
To be introduced in a form theoretically by a human.

Google come from interesting innovations that promise to secure as they once protected by CAPTCHA without requiring the user effortlessly.

The new algorithms seems that manage to check if it is really behind the monitor via a human analyzing his action. The Google blog does not contain further details and merely indicate that the end-user verification process ends with the simple insertion of a tick in a box; to exploit this new opportunity available the necessary APIs for developers.

The current solution based on distorted letters and displayed on a background uneven remains available to developers. This new way to implement CAPTCHA is only one of Google’s efforts in this area. We report that fact improving its implementation in mobile verification CAPTCHA is made with different elements of individual letters: the user is eg shown various icons and images and asked to select items based on a default parameter.