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CAPTCHAs May Soon Go Extinct – Gizmodo Australia
Are you a human? It’s an age-old question made more pressing by the ability for millions of computers to shut down websites or snipe auctions out from under regular,…
Are you a human? Its an age-old question made more pressing by the ability for millions of computers to shut down websites or snipe auctions out from under regular, non-robotic buyers. Whats more, proving youre a human reduces spam, abuse, and even theft.
But the way we currently tell if someone is human online the CAPTCHA is, according to Internet backbone provider Cloudflare, costing us collectively 500 years per day.
The CAPTCHA, which stands for Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell…
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