| | 1 | = PWNtcha - captcha decoder = |
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| | 3 | PWNtcha stands for "''Pretend We’re Not a Turing Computer but a Human Antagonist''", as well as ''PWN capTCHAs''. This project’s goal is to demonstrate the inefficiency of many captcha implementations. |
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| | 5 | For an overview on why visual captchas are a bad idea, see Matt May’s excellent presentation, [http://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/0319-csun-m3m/slide1-0.html Escape from CAPTCHA], as well as the W3C’s [http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ Inaccessibility of Visually-Oriented Anti-Robot Tests] working draft. |
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| | 7 | == History == |
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| | 9 | I created PWNtcha in 2004 as a personal research project, but only published my results, not the program itself. Given the number of captcha-breaking software available for sale now, I changed my mind and decided to publish the PWNtcha source code. It can be downloaded from Subversion: |
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| | 11 | svn co svn://svn.zoy.org/libcaca/pwntcha/trunk pwntcha |
| | 12 | }}} |
| | 13 | Note that PWNtcha is now lagging 3 years behind captcha technology and is therefore no longer a very interesting piece of software. |
