{"id":6185,"date":"2010-08-20T08:26:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T13:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=6185"},"modified":"2014-08-07T11:10:46","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T16:10:46","slug":"web-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/web-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6186\" title=\"CAPTCHA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/captcha.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I always wondered if someone was paid to come up with those weird verification words we&#8217;re asked to type in on secure sites.<\/strong> Granted most are just gibberish but every once in a while you&#8217;ll see something that seems coherent. Even more amusing is the fact that these things actually have a name: CAPTCHAs. It&#8217;s an acronym that stands for <strong>C<\/strong>ompletely <strong>A<\/strong>utomated <strong>P<\/strong>ublic <strong>T<\/strong>uring test to tell <strong>C<\/strong>omputers and <strong>H<\/strong>umans <strong>A<\/strong>part. I&#8217;d feel better if there was a human on the other end generating these. If a computer randomly plugs characters in and creates the distorted shape how secure can it really be? Wouldn&#8217;t there be a way around it? It&#8217;s like radar detectors. I&#8217;m pretty sure the one I used back in high school would be completely worthless today because the technology is constantly improving. How long will it be before we start getting a CAPTCHAs that a computer AND human can&#8217;t read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always wondered if someone was paid to come up with those weird verification words we&#8217;re asked to type in on secure sites. Granted most are just gibberish but every once in a while you&#8217;ll see something that seems coherent. Even more amusing is the fact that these things actually have a name: CAPTCHAs. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-1BL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7540,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions\/7540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}