Tag: captcha
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Bypassing WordPress / Jetpack's "Prove your humanity:" CAPTCHA
Popular WordPress plugin Jetpack provides a CAPTCHA whose sole purpose seems to be to frustrate humans. It does nothing to stop bots, as Dan demonstrates with a browser plugin that circumvents it.
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Squiz CMS Easter Eggs (or: why do I keep seeing Greg's name in my CAPTCHA?)
When using the Squiz CMS, Dan noticed that his CAPTCHA kept containing the same patterns of letters. These turned out to be the names of early developers on the system, which in turn lead Dan to uncover Easter Eggs in the software that have been deliberately concealed by their authors.
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Enter the "wooords" you see...
AltCAPTCHA labelled "Enter the words you see" and the word is "wooords"
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Enter the wooords you see
AltCAPTCHA labelled "Enter the words you see" and the word is "wooords"