Hi, Exactly. The personal questions like what is your mother's maiden name, what is your dog's name, etc are perfectly fine when you have an existing account. That type of security question works well for retrieving your password etc. However, it doesn't work for creating a new account for the first time because it doesn't have a clue what your mother's maiden name is or what your dog's name is. :D
However, as Dark pointed out there are plenty of general questions that could be asked at random to foil spambots like "who was the first president of the United States" or "what is the largest ocean in the world?" Such questions are general enough that most people past the fifth grade would know them, but unless a spambot has a large database of trivia facts might not be able to guess. So I think there are ways to get the same result without aC CAPTCHA. Still, the CAPTCHA system would be fine if the audio was clear enough to hear. The real complaint with Google and other CAPTCHAs is when you click on the audio link the letters are garbled to the point you can't tell if it said g or d or a or j. Some letters sound so alike in those CAPTCHAs it makes them impossible to use. So rather than trying to get Google etc to use something else I think the first step is just to fix the CAPTCHA system so it works for everyone. Cheers! On 4/10/13, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi amanda. > > Tests like asking the mothers maiden name or your first school are all very > > well when you have created an account with someone such as bt or apple and > need to log back in and check that account, but captchas usually refer only > > to when you create an account for the first time, which is why the question > > couldn't be personal. > > There are however still lots of general questions that could be asked though > > for account setup which everyone would know without resorting to those > stupid captchas. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
