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April 17, 2010 · 12:02 PM

The CAPTCHA career

By Rick Lax

Who writes these anyway?

Yesterday I helped a friend start a Facebook account. The CAPTCHA was, “the haitian.” Today I left a comment on a friend’s blog. The CAPTCHA was “volest,” a familiar-sounding combination of “volume” and “molest.”

The Wikipedia entry on CAPTCHA was fascinating (turns out it’s an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), but it didn’t answer my primary CAPTCHA question: Who the hell creates these things?

Is it a computer? Is it some guy? If it’s a guy, how does he get the job? Presumably he’s got to submit some sample CAPTCHAs for review.

Rick's future career: CAPTCHA writer?

Rick's future career: CAPTCHA writer?

Well, if the guy who hires the CAPTCHA creators is reading this blog entry—hi there!—I’d like to show him some of my work:

condipple

flartubart

for seasonality

sargeritis

ongoing catharsis

finderpoof

langdonomy

geriatric backlash

That’s just off the top of my head. I can do better.

If the price is right…

The other day the Woman got "pigho." I think the Captcha thingy was speaking to her personally...

Posted by: psychokittymax on 4/17/10 at 5:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Pig Ho! Oh my goodness. These things are SO written by hand (and not a computer).

Posted by: Rick Lax (Staff) on 4/18/10 at 11:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)

A game of scrapple (pon haus):
Distractamundos-Anything interesting other than business
Raptorgitoriousless-Life without computer hackers
Erasivexceptionalis-The ability to compartmentalize
Ragmagticulling-Disambiguous celeb photos without their personal quotes
Loveandwill-Confusion...

When Worlds Collide {chucklefringe}
yeah--im bored

Posted by: cypher on 4/18/10 at 9:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Bored indeed. Might I suggest spending some time competing in a Sniglet tournament. I'm betting you'd be unbeatable.

What I'm talking about:

(http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7...)

Posted by: Rick Lax (Staff) on 4/19/10 at 11:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)

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