Thursday, December 4, 2014

Google reCaptcha revamped!

We integrated SimpleCaptcha with OpenAM for one of our customers before. And the #1 complaint was always "How to make the distorted words or numbers more human-readable?"

Google's reCaptcha technology was also based on  distorted words or numbers. But they are now changing ... reCaptcha will be reduced to nothing more than a single checkbox next to the statement “I’m not a robot.” (Source here)


Instead of depending upon the traditional distorted word test, Google’s “reCaptcha” examines cues every user unwittingly provides: IP addresses and cookies provide evidence that the user is the same friendly human Google remembers from elsewhere on the Web. And Shet says even the tiny movements a user’s mouse makes as it hovers and approaches a checkbox can help reveal an automated bot.


This is a good move!

3 comments:

  1. Can you please share with us your code of SimpleCaptcha? We would be glad to review so we can do the same for recaptcha.

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  2. Try to start from here https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/. Then proceed to here https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin#list.

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    1. thank you for your response. I'm more concerned about how to integrate it in OpenAM.

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