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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.)

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  • The only way to tell if the CAPTCHA is weak is to see how often it has been broken. – Blender Oct 04 '11 at 18:22
  • You should also check out the information here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/448963/has-recaptcha-been-cracked-hacked-ocrd-defeated-broken/549859#549859. ReCAPTCHA has always been broken, but then again *all* CAPTCHAs are broken even before implementation. – AviD Oct 04 '11 at 20:46
  • As @AviD says - I think this is a duplicate – Rory Alsop Oct 05 '11 at 10:01

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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.

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  • I already read that link, but thank you. Those articles lead me to my question. I have doubts with the implementation, but I don't see any alternative systems that can be used instead of reCaptcha.. – ruptha Oct 05 '11 at 09:13