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Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Well, lets not split hairs here. Does ReCAPTCHA claim to be any more secure then any other CAPTCHA? Because all I've ever seen it claim as it's sole difference was it helped to digitize literature. Not a whole lot of claims on it's superior security.

Either way, what are you disagreeing with me with? We had a huge number of discussion here in October when several people's boards were suddenly getting deluged with spam. Several people pointing out ReCAPTCHA's flaws. So I'm not sure if you're disagreeing with that, or disagreeing with my point that security questions are much harder for bots to guess.

Allow me to add this to that recaptcha discussion - I run 4 forums, 2 - vbulletin and 2 - SMF. 3 of the 4 forums were getting slammed everyday with 4, 5, 6 and more spam bots every day. All three forums were using captcha with email verification. Once I set up ReCaptcha, the spam stopped right then. Instead of each forum getting 4, 5 or 6 spam bots a day, in the past month one forum has had 2 spammers sign up.



I disagree with your statement -

ReCAPTCHA has pretty much been nullified by the most recent spam bot programs.

I have seen the side by side effects of ReCaptcha on VBulletin and SMF. And on both forums the program was very effective in stopping spam.