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What is a Captcha?

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robbj | 2 years, 4 months ago
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CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart" and is a security system used by many websites to determine if a user is legitimate or just looking to spam the website.

You can add a CAPTCHA to your website, free of charge, by signing up for the source code at the official CAPTCHA website, www.recaptcha.net. reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books, newspapers and old time radio shows.
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writerbest | 2 years, 4 months ago
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Here is a good definition of Captcha which i read in Wisegeek.com and presenting it to you.
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A CAPTCHA, or Completely Automated Public Turing-test to tell Computers and Humans Apart, is used to keep bots and other automated programs from signing up for offers, collecting or signing up for email addresses, violating privacy, trying to crack passwords, or sending out spam to unsuspecting email recipients. A CAPTCHA works by issuing a challenge to the person or entity attempting to gain access.

A CAPTCHA challenge is usually a simple visual test or puzzle that a sighted human can complete without much difficulty, but that an automated program cannot understand. The test usually consists of letters, numbers or other images that overlap or intersect. The images are distorted in some way or shown against an intricate background to keep them from being easily read by another computer.
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edwardclint | 2 years, 4 months ago
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Captcha is a software program primarily used to make website secures from spam bots. This program was developed in 2000 by Luis von Ahn, Manuel Blum, Nicholas Hopper and John Langford of Carnegie Mellon University. This was first used by Yahoo and was adopted later by competitors. It is generally, visible on Yahoo Messenger, when entering a chat room, wherein you need to type the captcha as a pre-requisite in getting into the chat room.

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