(Predictable) Trouble in the House of Google
Jeff Atwood recently blogged about the declining quality of search results, particularly with respect to Stack Overflow content. His main observation is that content syndication websites »
3D CAPTCHA
In a previous post, I talked about the limitations with CAPTCHA systems and proposed a partially-automated turing test to keep non-humans out. I had a few »
Translink Fail
The Queensland Government recently introduced the Go card to provide a single intelligent ticketing mechanism for (almost) all public transport in South East Queensland. The technology »
Most Password Policies Are Bad
I want to preface this post with a couple of disclaimers. When I talk about passwords in this post, I'm talking about the ones that matter. »
CAPTCHA is Dead, Long Live PAPTCHA?
Slashdot today carries a link to a story claiming that the CAPTCHA algorithm for Hotmail (or Windows Live Hotmail or whatever it's called now) has been »