Comments on: reCAPTCHA – the power of channelizing human efforts http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-IT-tech-trends/recaptcha-the-power-of-channelizing-human-efforts/ Everything from Mainframes to Cloud Wed, 27 Feb 2013 18:51:40 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nikki6 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-IT-tech-trends/recaptcha-the-power-of-channelizing-human-efforts/#comment-5 Nikki6 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:01:50 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-IT-tech-trends/?p=15#comment-5 Text-based Authentication is a thing of the past and still continues to be a problem for most people along with it still allowing for SPAM/BOTS to get through you have to now contend with Phish Attacks. Anyone that has ever used CAPTCHA and/or RECAPTCHA know that is becomes a complete hassle trying to decipher the random words along with have to start over if you input the incorrect verbiage.

Now imagine if you have bad vision and need to go online for something, it is a complete nightmare and make the online experience not very enjoyable for anyone.

At first you had some kind of text-based authentication which was single word and those usually are random letters, numbers and symbols but those can be easier broken, so along came RECAPTCHA which use any two random word to authenticate. These words cannot be read half the time and sometimes the wording combination is offensive..

Image-based Authentication and Verification solutions that can be imbedded within WCM’s are the next wave and make sense. Images-based Captcha solution offers pure ease of use and more security from BOTS and SPAM when websites have web pages where users can comment, register or blog.

]]> By: There is no such thing as free lunch – Internet based services - Enterprise IT Consultant Views on Technologies and Trends http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-IT-tech-trends/recaptcha-the-power-of-channelizing-human-efforts/#comment-4 There is no such thing as free lunch – Internet based services - Enterprise IT Consultant Views on Technologies and Trends Wed, 28 Jul 2010 06:54:57 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/enterprise-IT-tech-trends/?p=15#comment-4 [...] involving the users without making them actually pay money. reCAPTCHA (refer to earlier blog http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.co&#8230 ;) is a classic example of how the human effort can be channelized for achieving huge productivity – [...]

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