{"id":45,"date":"2009-01-05T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/2009\/01\/05\/captcha-madness\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T04:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T04:37:00","slug":"captcha-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"captcha madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

i went to gmail today to login to an older email account i haven’t checked in a while… apparently *too* long, because i got presented a captcha<\/a> upon entering the username and password.<\/p>\n

i was having a hard time reading the text (no surprises there, captcha’s really suck as a technology), so for fun i decided to try clicking the “handicap” icon so i could listen to the captcha in audio format.<\/p>\n

for some reason, it’s never occurred to me that, just as visual captcha uses random crap in the image to try to prevent OCR<\/a> from determining the letters, the audio version would contain a whole lot of noise in an effort to prevent text to speech from doing the same.<\/p>\n

if you’ve ever wondered what an audible version of the mass confusion that is a modern captcha file might sound like: here you go<\/a>.<\/p>\n

all i can say is, it’s a good thing i can see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i went to gmail today to login to an older email account i haven’t checked in a while… apparently…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,60],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing","tag-rambling","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}