Archive for 2007/06


Human-proofing with Tibtihtwibto

I’d like to talk about CAPTCHA today.
CAPTCHA means “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” It’s probably more commonly known as something like “That Irritating Blurry Text I Have To Type Whenever I Buy Tickets Online,” but, honestly, between CAPTCHA and TIBTIHTWIBTO, I prefer CAPTCHA.
Here’s the Turing test: you have a [...]

Viduped? Uh oh!

So here’s a question. How can Vidoop claim to be resistant to hacking when there’s this really obvious man-in-the-middle attack that can be executed on it? (After all, I believe it’s been suggested that we’ve all been “viduped”) First, it’s important (though I would have thought unnecessary) to bring up the word “resistant.” We say [...]