My Identity

With the rise of the data age, modern technology has become a prevalent tool in everyday life throughout the world. Pretty soon money will be tendered paperless and driving will become an automated function. With this in mind peoples personal identity are not safe from anyone. Not only that anybody can take over your identity easily which means our lives will not become original to ourselves. That is why Computer security has been the forefront of many people's concerns. Computer security is such a broad topic to talk about because it could fall into many fields such as cloud, network, or even cyber security. Instead I am going to cover the topic of attack bots.

With growing networks and competitors, there are many malicious software that are out there to attack your network. To prevent these measures of malicious attacks or people who have intentions of just abusing the system by up voting their own program or video by using automated tasks Captchas were invted.

The picture above shows a security measure that people use to make sure that the user logged in is not an automated bot. While this may sound harmful abusing the system is the same as if I would punch in at work. Leave for my whole shift and just come back to punch back out. With that in mind you can see how automated tasks and software can be bad. 

A brief history of CAPTCHA includes Turing Test. Alan Turing, sometimes called the father of modern computing, proposed the test as a way to examine whether or not machines can think -- or appear to think -- like humans. The classic test is a game of imitation. In this game, an interrogator asks two participants a series of questions. And sees the difference between machine and man.

Of course, with a CAPTCHA, the goal is to create a test that humans can pass easily but machines can't. It's also important that the CAPTCHA application. BUT one must keep in mind that software is built to combat these measures so different CAPTCHAs to different users. If a visual CAPTCHA presented a static image that was the same for every user, it wouldn't take long before someone could decipher the letters by spamming all the results and re use the same answer for all Capchay.

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