Human Factors and CAPTCHA Experiment from Google’s Boffins

If the research question is wrong and irrelevant, how can one expect to have right and relevant results? When it comes to recognizing CAPTCHAs, it seems to happen quite frequently. But now, according to a paper released by Google’s boffins has pointed towards a new and more impressive CAPTCHA system that has been developed with the very purpose of making it harder for bots to recognize it and a lot easier for humans to do this.

The growing trends to be excluded if the new approach is implemented and it may make the new system a lot more abused than the previous ones.

Malware infected hosts have been persistently trying to identify CAPTCHAs, but it didn’t seem to do a lot in end by just solving 200,000 CAPTCHAs and to charge $2 for every thousand entries.

Two months back, a Russian boutique vendor of CAPTCHA solution services came up with a new approach that was a revenue sharing community driven scheme for breaking CAPTCHA. This concept seemed to mimic ease of reCAPTCHAs implementation, but it will allow the webmasters to implement the forms of CAPTCHA solving.

This fact is very disturbing that various vendors seem quite well-aware of Web2.0 and have been working with some well-known spamming tools and blackhat search engine optimization that enable their customers to use API key for CAPTCHA solving.

Popular social networking worm Koobface is a perfect example of exploiting CAPTCHA systems through human networks.  As it has been eating CAPTCHA barrier of different social networking sites and this gang seems to make the most of algorithm of CAPTCH recognition.

The ongoing battle is not between CAPTCHAs and bots, it’s being fought against human networks by networks that are trying to distinguish between bots and humans.

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Tags: google boffins, research question, search engine optimization, social networking, spamming tools, web2.0