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Title: CAPTCHAs May Do More Harm Than Good Post by: HCK on March 27, 2015, 03:00:13 am CAPTCHAs May Do More Harm Than Good
If an annoyance contest were held between passwords and CAPTCHAs, passwords would probably win, but not by much. CAPTCHA -- Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart -- was created to foil bots attempting to mass-create accounts at websites. Once created, those accounts could be exploited by online lowlifes for malicious ends, such as spewing spam. Source: CAPTCHAs May Do More Harm Than Good (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/81872.html?rss=1) |