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AOL Mail uses many security measures to keep your account secure, one of which is CAPTCHA or image challenges when sending mail. These challenges exist to make it harder for hackers to access your accounts. The characters can't be read by a computer and must be entered manually, ensuring only a real person can pass the test. Why am I being ...
This CAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA v1) of "smwm" obscures its message from computer interpretation by twisting the letters and adding a slight background color gradient.A CAPTCHA (/ ˈ k æ p. tʃ ə / KAP-chə) is a type of challenge–response test used in computing to determine whether the user is human in order to deter bot attacks and spam.
reCAPTCHA Inc. [1] is a CAPTCHA system owned by Google.It enables web hosts to distinguish between human and automated access to websites. The original version asked users to decipher hard-to-read text or match images.
The most widely used anti-bot technique is CAPTCHA. Examples of providers include Recaptcha, Minteye, Solve Media and NuCaptcha. However, captchas are not foolproof in preventing bots, as they can often be circumvented by computer character recognition, security holes, and outsourcing captcha solving to cheap laborers. [citation needed]
More traditional techniques such as CAPTCHAs are also often employed, however they are generally considered ineffective while simultaneously obtrusive to human visitors. [11] The use of JavaScript can prevent some bots that rely on basic requests (such as via cURL), as these will not load the detection script and hence will fail to progress. [1]
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This could be people using CAPTCHA's to get humans to read words which OCR software has failed to read properly (maybe due to a blot on the book). This is automated so that the OCR software combined with humans works much better. QuentinUK 12:36, 12 March 2011 (UTC)