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Google Reinvents the CAPTCHA with a Simple Check Box to Keep Bots at Bay

Posted on the 04 December 2014 by Nrjperera @nrjperera

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Google’s reCAPTCHA gets rid of those annoying puzzles once and for all. Instead, reCAPTCHA presents users with a simple check box that says “I’m not a robot”. Just a single click on that check box is enough to prove that you’re human.

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According to Google’s research, it has been revealed that today’s Artificial Intelligence technology has the ability to solve the distorted text in CAPTCHA at 99.8% accuracy.

“To counter this, last year we developed an Advanced Risk Analysis backend for reCAPTCHA that actively considers a user’s entire engagement with the CAPTCHA—before, during, and after—to determine whether that user is a human. This enables us to rely less on typing distorted text and, in turn, offer a better experience for users,” Google wrote on the blog post.

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Google has started rolling out the reCAPTCHA API and will update their services with the new system soon. Hopefully, more service will adapt into this new system and help us, humans, enjoy a much smoother internet experience.

[Via: TechCrunch / Google Security Blog / Photo: Didier Jansen ]
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by Roshan Jerad Perera



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