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[-] Shanedino@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago

Fun fact not only to captchas monitor your input but also can analyze how you input it. If you mouse moves in a perfectly straight line if all your key presses are precisely spaced, you are probably not human.

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 10 months ago

Both of those seem trivial to circumvent.

[-] Shanedino@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

Sure two additional cases not that bad, now just keep adding them up. Like anything security related it's not 100% perfect you just have to make it annoying to break.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Meanwhile mathematicians working on cryptography: the universe will die before you get even 10% chance of cracking encryption.

Security by obscurity is no security.

[-] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

No. Security through obscurity is bad security, but it's still an additional layer. And since there's literally no way to 100% ensure that a machine is being controlled by a human, there's literally no other way except saying "fuck it" and not doing any security at all.