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The most difficult captcha there is

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Posted by Anirudh on June 2, 2009 at 4:22 AM

I was browsing through the site of a celebrity recently and came across the contact page. I was shocked to find the captcha there. Take a look yourself and be amazed : http://www.gulpanag.net/contact_gul_panag.php

Why would anyone display the captcha as text ready for a bot passing by to read? (It’s even got a nice class – captchas – wrapping it) Is that some kind of a honeypot? Is that a dummy form? Does the site admin feel lonely because no one sends him/her mail and is hoping to at least read spam?

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5 Comments

  • On June 2, 2009 at 4:49 AM ashwin jk said

    cmon man , for how can i fill even those stupid captchas , besides those gorgeous pic :P , sooooo distracting . I doubt anyone made it yet, no wonder the admin feels bored.

  • On June 2, 2009 at 4:51 AM admin said

    heh heh.. agree with you 100% there :D

  • On June 2, 2009 at 3:31 PM Larissa Reynolds said

    Ha! My best guess is someone thought “ordinary” verification codes were ugly so they decided to make a pretty one to match the rest of the site design. ;)

    Thanks for the giggle.

  • On June 2, 2009 at 11:43 PM admin said

    Hi Larissa,

    Yeah, captchas can be really ugly sometimes. Maybe they should use your service.. heh heh :)

  • On August 25, 2009 at 12:33 AM cafm said

    maybe it expects all other captchas to use image based code, making it ineffective for any generic bot to parse the text and bypass the code.

    Sometimes the best place to hide things is in plain sight! :D

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