Death by Captcha Versus De-Captcher: Battle of the Hard Solve

CAPTCHA is an acronym for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart”, and almost as soon as the CAPTCHA was invented, people realized that they would need a service that could quickly and easily overcome the security. Consider that you’ve made a new business partner--someone who may not be as technically savvy as you are. In order to communicate with the partner’s website, you essentially need to transfer a “solved” CAPTCHA to their service in order to get your data through to their website. This is one of the key reasons for services such as Death by Captcha and De-Captcher.

While robots still have difficulty with most CAPTCHA devices, that doesn’t mean that they’re unbeatable. On the contrary, leagues of freelancers across the globe are willing and able to support breaking CAPTCHAs manually--as the assumption is that only a human can decipher a non-machine readable image. CAPTCHA is used to protect many legitimate business processes such as polling, or when certified accurate email addresses are required to be entered. A CAPTCHA is added to forms to ensure that individuals are the ones who are filling out the forms. Both De-Captcher and Death by Captcha offer ultra-private payment services such as Webmoney and Bitcoin--and neither accepts direct PayPal payments.

Simple CAPTCHAs are likely to be solved by basic OCR (optical character recognition) software, while more complex CAPTCHAs like math or images might be required to have human intervention before the quality jumps up above 50%. While the fuzzy background behind some CAPTCHA images can confuse a computer, more and more algorithms are being created which can filter out the noise and only return a very clear positive result.