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Has reCaptcha been cracked / hacked / OCR'd / defeated / broken?
I recognized that during some time reCaptcha is used without the horizontal line. I do not like the changes. Referring to some articles, google’s captcha service is getting weaker and weaker. Do you guys think reCaptcha is still the best captcha there is, or should i think about using another implementation?
(I’m using play in my current project, and I’m also not very happy with the implementation play supplies.)
Have a read of this article at allspammedup from January 2011 which gives statistics on a crack rate of 17.5% on google reCAPTCHA
Two definites – people are getting better at programming algorithms to get around CAPTCHAs, and CAPTCHAs themselves are getting to the limit of being understood by peoples, so yeas – the effective strength of CAPTCHAs is decreasing, at at some point another solution will have to be used.