Researchers Dare AI Experts To Crack New GOTCHA Password Scheme 169
alphadogg writes "If you can't tell the difference between an inkblot that looks more like 'body builder lady with mustache and goofy in the center' than 'large steroid insect with big eyes,' then you can't crack passwords protected via a new scheme created by computer scientists that they've dubbed GOTCHA. GOTCHA, a snappy acronym for the decidedly less snappy Generating panOptic Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart, is aimed at stymying hackers from using computers to figure out passwords, which are all too often easy to guess. GOTCHA, like its ubiquitous cousin CAPTCHA, relies on visual cues that typically only a human can appreciate. The researchers don't think that computers can solve the puzzles and have issued a challenge to fellow security researchers to use artificial intelligence to try to do so. You can find the GOTCHA Challenge here."
Really? (Score:5, Funny)
I feel like they mind as well have asked me to paint a picture which best conveys my ex-girlfriend's LiveJournal post from 2001.
Uh, right. (Score:2, Funny)
I don't see any of these. e.g. How the F*** is that a robot on a skateboard?
The only winning move is not to play.
Bwahaha! (Score:5, Funny)
I dare them to take their scheme to the streets and fairly find 1000 people that can get them right.
Re:Challenge Declined (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:hooray, eggheads (Score:4, Funny)
I'm not sure how more sites don't get smacked for that.
Re:Really? (Score:5, Funny)
mind as well have asked me to paint a picture which best conveys my ex-girlfriend's LiveJournal post from 2001.
it is not a Rorschach test [wikipedia.org], silly.
2001, you really do have to get over her and move on...
Re:Hermann Rorschach (Score:2, Funny)
Your haiku doesn't work.
Re:You've gotta be kidding me (Score:5, Funny)
And I go over to the psychologist, and he says, "Emo, what does this inkblot look like to you?"
..and he gets kind of depressed.
I said, "Oh, it's kind of embarrassing."
He said, "Emo, everyone sees something, so don't be embarrassed. Tell me what the inkblot looks like to you."
I said, "Well, to me it looks like standard pattern #3 in the Rorschach series to test obsessive compulsiveness."
I said, "Okay, it's a butterfly." and he cheers up.
He said, "What does this inkblot look like?"
I said, "It looks like a horrible ugly blob of pure evil that sucks the souls of man into a vortex of sin and degradation."
He said, "No, um, the inkblot's over there. That's a photo of my wife you're looking at."
"Oh," I said, "was I far off?"
He said, "No. That's the sad part."
- Emo Philips