Civil Rights Captcha employs an empathy test to ward off spambots

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Loathe it as we do, the captcha goes a long way to preventing websites from being inundated with spam comments produced by nefarious software. However, there’s room for improvement, and rather than tasking a user with a series of random words which must be entered in order to be allowed to comment on a website, the Civil Rights Captcha employs an empathy test to measure whether you pass muster. .. Continue Reading Civil Rights Captcha employs an empathy test to ward off spambots

Section: Personal Computing

Tags: Internet, Software, Spam, Test

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