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From what I could read on that website, it should be fairly easy to defeat the detection mechanism by changing the colours for each letter, rotating them, and maybe altering their transparancy?


And then someone just tweaks the adversary code a little bit to understand alternating colors and ...

Hi!

Although the page is in german, I would like to recommend the following site:

http://www.amigalink.de/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=529" target="_blank

It depends on

GD_library >= 1.6 with freetype


but has very nice acp options, maybe the german speaking dev team members could take a look ...

(I'm guessing large mods such as the profile contorl panel will take a while before they are ported to phpbb3?)


Some large mods may never be inquired to be ported such like profile control panel, subforums, super moderator, custom profile fields, and etc because Olympus already has them in ...

Drew*** wrote: What if you reduced the letter spacing by 4pts and ran the letters together. It sure plays hell with the ocr software in our office.

I've tried that also. works well against ocr, i agree =)

Randomise Colours - Right now, the text of the CAPTCHA is constant and easier for a bot to recognise. I'd like to see a variety of colours used on different sides of the colour wheel, for both the background and lettering.

This tends to work pretty well, although if your algorithms for color ...

Unless we add a number of more random fields that we can simply hide with CSS.


I think using CSS for functionality is a bad idea. You have to deal with cross-browser compatibility issues, and accessibility (which will likely be a bigger problem?). It seems to me that using CSS in this fashion ...

Ratt wrote: ajax? good grief..where im from (NC in the usa) ajax is a chemical ya use to clean ya sinks and bathtubs,ya dont put it on ur computer

You sir, win.

consider reading the mod's installation notes before tinkering around with it.

The collective sigh of relief MOD seems to work ...
:lol: that was classic. didn't Xore do that one? ;)

Once apon a long time ago, Pit said 'Camel Mod'. He didn't know what it meant, or the significance of it at the time. Of his accidental verbal effluence, a great and glorious mod was borne ...

I see John is already licking peoples behinds by suddenly agreeing to things he was prime mover in limiting (admin access) ... hum ho, typical behaviour from him. I guess I am a little disappointed that some team members are still actively cooperating with him. It surprises me because I thought it ...