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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 ...
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.
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.
In September 2022, Cloudflare began to test Turnstile – an alternative to CAPTCHA. The product, instead of presenting a visual CAPTCHA for the user to solve, automatizes the verification process by conducting JavaScript-based checks inside the browser to determine whether the user is a real person or an automated entity.
An email inbox containing a large amount of spam messages. Spamming is the use of messaging systems to send multiple unsolicited messages (spam) to large numbers of recipients for the purpose of commercial advertising, non-commercial proselytizing, or any prohibited purpose (especially phishing), or simply repeatedly sending the same message to the same user.
If the user answers the KNOWN word incorrectly, they fail the captcha. However, if the known word is typed correctly, the user passes the captcha regardless, and the ansswer to the unknown word is passed to the captcha service for evaluation as a possible solution (explained in the article as a points based evaluation).
In computer terminology, a honeypot is a computer security mechanism set to detect, deflect, or, in some manner, counteract attempts at unauthorized use of information systems.
I toned down this a bit: instead of "CAPTCHAs are used to stop spam", for instance, I use "CAPTCHAs are used as a measure to stop spam" or "CAPTCHAs are used as an effort to stop spam". The differences may be subtle, but I think the text now is shifted in the direction of a more fair and realistic assessment of the technology.