reCAPTCHA
Submitted by graystatic on Mon, 10/27/2008 - 09:48
So I was on a site the other day and was prompted with a not so uncommon captcha prompt. A major 3rd party supplier of these (including on the comments here) is reCAPTCHA. They actually have an interesting twist of it. reCAPTCHA's motto is "Stop Spam, Read Books". So apparently what they do is use the millions of captchas served daily to convert scanned books into text. Computers don't always do the greatest translating scanned images into text. So they use feedback from all the different captchas to translate these captchas into text.
How to Write a Good Password
Submitted by graystatic on Wed, 10/29/2008 - 09:48Making passwords is something everybody on the web does. The art is in making good, secure passwords that you can also remember easily. There are two methods I have found really effective. There are tons of passwords I use that I have to be able to recall at any time. Most people would resort to making short passwords, writing passwords down, or using the same password for multiple things, these methods are horribly insecure.