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In the previous post, we discussed options for discouraging spammers and black hat posts, such as replacing hyperlinks to email addresses with contact us forms and reviewing blog replies before setting them live. Out of this, a question was asked regarding the use of CAPTCHA and alternative methods for form security.
First, let’s explain CAPTCHA. The acronym stands for Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart. Basically, CAPTCHA is a program that protects websites by weeding out Internet bots, which are software applications that run automated tasks and troll the web looking for forms to exploit. There are many websites that offer free CAPTCHA scripts for various programming languages. The CAPTCHA most recognized can be found at www.captcha.net. Besides sight recognition they also offer voice recognition for your seeing impaired visitors, as well as an option for object recognition instead of character recognition.
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