{"id":77,"date":"2005-09-29T15:35:41","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T20:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stein.everybody.org\/journal\/?p=77"},"modified":"2013-04-27T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T18:19:00","slug":"captcha-oxymoron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/captcha-oxymoron\/","title":{"rendered":"CAPTCHA Oxymoron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><acronym title=\"Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart\">CAPTCHA<\/acronym> is an oxymoron.  Computers can not administer the Turing test.<\/p>\n<p>If you think CAPTCHA is something gangsters try to avoid, here is some background:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is CAPTCHA?  <em>A <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captcha\">Captcha<\/a> is a Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.<\/em>  (Oh, it&#8217;s those hard-to-read letters you have to type in at some sites.  Why didn&#8217;t you just say so!?)<\/li>\n<li>Can I try one?  <em>Sure.  Try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.captcha.net\/cgi-bin\/gimpy\">Gimpy<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>So what&#8217;s wrong with them?  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.15seconds.com\/issue\/040202.htm\">Computers can sometimes solve them.<\/a>  Some with incredible success rates.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPTCHA is an oxymoron. Computers can not administer the Turing test. If you think CAPTCHA is something gangsters try to avoid, here is some background:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}