Comment on I have to be knowledgeable about a particular superstition in order to sign in to access a government form

StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What we need is a privacy preserving identity system that isn’t tied to one service or entity.

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• Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why are captchas getting complex.

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  • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “AI” captcha solvers have a 90% plus success rate for old style ones…

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    • Mwa@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ohh okay

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because automated captcha solvers are getting complex

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• deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This isn’t a captcha, It’s identify verification.

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• SwordInStone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  how is it security through obscurity?

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  • pixelscript@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Someone looking to specifically break this website’s captcha wouldn’t have a hard time.

    But web-scraping bots using off-the-shelf captcha solvers will be screened out en masse, because how many of them are equipped to correctly answer this stupidly specific question? That’s the obscurity.

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  • StarlightDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It could be solved with a simple if statement

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    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But you’d have to purposefully code it, you cant just have it automatically done using a library

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