[Year 12 IT Apps] Data security - the end of CAPTCHA?

[Mark]

Speaking of time travel...

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/google-one-click-recaptcha/

"When Alan Turing first conceived of the Turing Test in 1947, he suggested
that a computer program’s resemblance to a human mind could be gauged by
making it answer a series of questions written by an interrogator in
another room. *Jump forward about seven decades*, and Google says it’s now
developed a Turing Test that can spot a bot by requiring it to do something
far simpler: Click on a checkbox.

On Wednesday, Google announced that many of its “Captchas”—the squiggled
text tests designed to weed out automated spambots—will be reduced to
nothing more than a single checkbox next to the statement “I’m not a
robot.” No more typing in distorted words or numbers; Google says it can,
in many cases, tell the difference between a person or an automated program
simply by tracking clues that don’t involve any user interaction. The
giveaways that separate man and machine can be as subtle as how he or she
(or it) moves a mouse in the moments before that single click."





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Mark Kelly
mark AT vceit DOT com
http://vceit.com
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