CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) are easily hacked…apparently.
So…I’m brainstorming different methods of testing for human intelligence that aren’t easily hacked by computers.
One major problem of conventional image-based CAPTCHAs are their inaccessibility to people that are blind. This shouldn’t matter to me if I’m developing a CAPTCHA for an [...]
…it’s fun, easy, and always makes me happy.
I don’t do any malicious hacking (that’s bad, guys), I just download everything. Real quick. Woosh.
I justify hacking as training me against the worst possible scenario for my own sites…and how I can develop more secure code.
…sigh, it’s just a reminder that you can never trust anything from [...]
I was playing around with my API for FAP and made a very simple, 7kb, browser-based mass upload tool. Permissions and authentication are verified with JSON on the client side and files are uploaded using a plain POST request. Easy enough.
The problem came when I was trying to get my script to POST to the [...]