The Games People Play - MMCxchange https://mmcxchange.com/ Fri, 22 May 2026 16:36:28 -0400 en-US hourly 1 Baltimore Times RSS Hub The Games People Play https://mmcxchange.com/detail/the-games-people-play_1777195258 Fri, 07 Nov 2025 03:14:02 -0500 https://mmcxchange.com/detail/the-games-people-play_1777195258 The Games People Play

I was having a conversation with my sister last month and we happened on the topic of CAPTCHAs.  She realized that a site she frequented, which uses a CAPTCHA to prove she is human, was getting harder and harder to complete. She started wondering if the underlying reason for the completion of this CAPTCHA was beyond just proving she was human.  Well, she was right. A CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is an established mechanism for distinguishing…]]>