Human verification..why?

**Skiz** · 01-10-2008, 11:52 PM

Originally Posted by TP635

For this site, my Firefox just remember it and I need not login. If there is no such feature in Firefox I may be band from here for making more than 6 try just to login

**tesco** · 01-10-2008, 11:58 PM

Originally Posted by Tokeman

wow, if you think a simple image verify will keep bots out, you got another thing comming. OCR software is very sophisticated, and has been working well for a long long time. It has been encorperated into almost any signup bot you could want. All your doing is making users go through an extra step for not much security gain.
But hey, what do I care, I stay log'd in anyway

Who the hell has the time to keep reprogramming OCR software to read a captcha that's changed almost immediately after a hole has been figured out?

The official word on why we need captcha:

Bots used to try to log into people's accounts (unsuccessfully) repeatedly. After 5 failed tries per account (which they'd go over multiple times in a row) the user gets a few emails saying that someone is trying to access their account.
The user gets scared, when in actual fact nobody can access the account ebcause they will never get the password right (well, rarely, unless someone picks something stupid).
So to stop this annoyance for our users I introduced captcha for logging in.

The captcha at registration is to prevent bots from signing up and creating threads with scams/advertising, all automatically.
And this works very well.

Originally Posted by Polarbear

you know what is kind of frustrating?

somebody opens a thread that has nothing to do with bittorrent but belongs in "everything related to the board" and gets many answers here.

when you post a question about the board in the right section, nobody answers you.

i think i will post everything in this section from now on.

That's very true.
But every answer up until the thread was moved was wrong.

**Adman65** · 01-23-2008, 12:49 AM

I have to refresh it like 10 times before I can get some words that I can actually read.

**peat moss** · 01-23-2008, 01:23 AM

Originally Posted by Adman65

I have to refresh it like 10 times before I can get some words that I can actually read.

Eggactly my feelings too or words I can't spell to begin with . I just use Firefox remember this site and in Ccleaner I saved the cookie from FST . It's only after a fresh install but still annoying .

**Sonnentier** · 01-24-2008, 03:06 PM

Firefox keeps me logged in and when just typing uncarefully I was always able to log in successfully.

**BawA** · 01-24-2008, 04:47 PM

apparently FireFox has a a flaw which they at mozila dont admit it. FF cant handle multiple login session and deletes the the cookies even though they are supposed to be deleted once expired.

if you google it you can find out that lots of FF users have same problem, the only way to solve this is by creating a fresh profile.

i myself have same problem, i must re-login to my bittorrent account almost each time i visit it, i cant really find out the exact time stamp when the cookies gets removed but the session expiration happens on random bases.

i even tried their support forums and as i said there is no official response to countless threads about the problem.