Re: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA

2007-04-01 Thread tedd
At 2:00 AM -0500 4/1/07, Richard Lynch wrote: On Fri, March 30, 2007 2:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those of you not following, what tedd's done with is blue dot is created a larger image that contains a blue dot somewhere. You can click in a fairly wide area, but only clicking on the

Re: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA

2007-03-31 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, March 30, 2007 2:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For those of you not following, what tedd's done with is blue dot is > created a larger image that contains a blue dot somewhere. You can > click in a fairly wide area, but only clicking on the blue dot yields > a success. But it's probab

Re: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA

2007-03-31 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, March 29, 2007 7:33 pm, John Comerford wrote: > I was reading the current tread on CAPTCHA and possible cracks and I > thought maybe I'd throw this out to the group to see what you think. > Recently I saw a forum where in order to post you first had to click > on > a div that was placed at

Re: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA

2007-03-31 Thread Tijnema !
On 3/31/07, tedd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 4:04 PM -0400 3/30/07, Jake McHenry wrote: > > Tijnema & John: >> >> The above link I've already done a long time ago. But check out my >> dot CAPTCHA here: >> > > http://sperling.com/examples/p-captcha > > > >Maybe I'm going blind.. But I don't

RE: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA

2007-03-31 Thread tedd
At 4:04 PM -0400 3/30/07, Jake McHenry wrote: > Tijnema & John: The above link I've already done a long time ago. But check out my dot CAPTCHA here: > http://sperling.com/examples/p-captcha > Maybe I'm going blind.. But I don't see a circle on that page anywhere? Everywhere I click it f

RE: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA

2007-03-30 Thread Jake McHenry
> -Original Message- > From: Tijnema ! [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 6:04 PM > To: Jake McHenry > Cc: tedd; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA > > On 3/31/07, Tijnema ! <[EMAIL PRO

Re: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA

2007-03-30 Thread Tijnema !
omerford > > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: Re: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA > > > > At 3:37 PM +0200 3/30/07, Tijnema ! wrote: > > >On 3/30/07, John Comerford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I was reading the current tread on

Re: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA

2007-03-30 Thread Tijnema !
On 3/30/07, Jake McHenry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Original Message- > From: tedd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 3:06 PM > To: Tijnema !; John Comerford > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to

RE: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA

2007-03-30 Thread Jake McHenry
> -Original Message- > From: tedd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 3:06 PM > To: Tijnema !; John Comerford > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA > > At 3:37 PM +0200 3/30/07, Tijnem

Re: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA

2007-03-30 Thread tg-php
hah.. I was going to let this discussion die a bit because a lot of it is fairly off-topic. But here and there we've hit on some PHP specific topics. I just had to say Kudos to tedd for providing a fairly interesting and possibly very functional CAPTCHA solution. True, a simple blue dot could

Re: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA

2007-03-30 Thread tedd
At 3:37 PM +0200 3/30/07, Tijnema ! wrote: On 3/30/07, John Comerford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was reading the current tread on CAPTCHA and possible cracks and I thought maybe I'd throw this out to the group to see what you think. Recently I saw a forum where in order to post you first had t

Re: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA

2007-03-30 Thread tg-php
I agree with Tijnema on the fact that visual positioning doesn't really matter to the bots. They don't really "see" the page the way we see it. Most tricks you're going to try using HTML and JS are going to be readable by a bot. You could take your example and replace the alert() with a window

Re: [PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA

2007-03-30 Thread Tijnema !
On 3/30/07, John Comerford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was reading the current tread on CAPTCHA and possible cracks and I thought maybe I'd throw this out to the group to see what you think. Recently I saw a forum where in order to post you first had to click on a div that was placed at a random

[PHP] Alternative/Addition to using a CAPTCHA

2007-03-29 Thread John Comerford
I was reading the current tread on CAPTCHA and possible cracks and I thought maybe I'd throw this out to the group to see what you think. Recently I saw a forum where in order to post you first had to click on a div that was placed at a random location on the page, it read something like, "Cli