Even ignoring openness and privacy, exactly the same problems are present with reCAPTCHA as with Fancy Captcha. It's often very hard or impossible for humans to read, and is a big enough target to have been broken by various people.
I don't know if it's constructive to brainstorm solutions to a "problem" before we measure the extent of the problem, but a viable compromise is very easy captchas. Spammers vary a great deal in sophistication but if we figure that any sophisticated enough to do any OCR are capable of finding and downloading existing public exploits of ours, then a block capital impact font captcha is equally easy for them, equally difficult for unsophisticated spammers and much easier for sighted humans.
Luke
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Arthur Richards arichards@wikimedia.orgwrote:
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:37 AM, vitalif@yourcmc.ru wrote:
Maybe you'll just use recaptcha instead of fancycaptcha?
/me gets popcorn to watch recaptcha flame war
There has been discussion on this list in the past about the use of recaptcha, but it has generally ended in a down-vote because reCaptcha is not open source (even though it supports free culture) nor is it something we can host on our own servers.
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