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For those of you who may not know what Captcha is, it is a skill based question added to an internet form to filter out humans from bots. They are designed to be easy enough for humans to solve yet hard enough to confuse automated scripts or spam bots; However, this may no longer be the case as computers are catching up to Captcha.


Link to and interesting article on computers catching up to captcha on CBC news.

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Modern forms of Captcha often rely on deciphering distorted text or symbols. For many people Captchas have become an inffuriating and ineffective annoyance on the web, becomming so complexe sometimes to the point of being impossible to solve.