MZMcBride wrote:
My intention wasn't to come across as dismissive.
On the other hand, if
people begin new conversations without having read the old conversations, it
sets back progress dramatically. The opening post didn't make any mention of
the old bugs or their progress, so I was trying to point out that these
issues were already known and there were already forums in which they could
and should be discussed.
There are such misunderstandings, so is sometimes the internet.
I think it's a real pity that CAPTCHAs are needed
at all. They're a
pain-in-the-ass and their effectiveness against coordinated or sophisticated
attacks is dubious at best.
And then you have projects like ptwiki which permanently make IPs pass
captchas due to a bot attack which was being done three years ago [1].
After running this way for three years, it probably needs community
consensus to change now the status quo.
1-
http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Esplanada/Arquivo/2008/Janeiro#…
If you looked at all of the CAPTCHA-related bugs as a
group (including
possibly removing the Python dependency), there's more than enough to be at
least considered for Summer of Code 2011.
We should create a captcha tracking bug.