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Traditional CAPTCHA is steadily losing favor on the Internet,proving continually frustrating to well-intentioned users and easily exploitable to malicious hackers and spammers . A startup called Are You a Human has announced its own uniqueapproach to fixing CAPTCHA: turning it into a game. The company's PlayThru cloud-based service is straightforward: Whenit comes time for users to prove their sentience, PlayThru servesup a miniature interactive game in which they must perform a simpletask, such as dragging food items but not inedible items into arefrigerator, or dragging a motorcycle but not a car into an emptyparking space. PlayThru uses proprietary algorithms to distinguishhuman interaction from malicious automated attacks, the companysays. Are You a Human isn't the first company aiming to make CAPTCHAeasier for users and less exploitable for bad guys. NuCAPTCHAoffers a video-based CAPTCHA technology , while Google recently started testing an an image-based implementation of its ReCAPTCHA, drawing on street-number images drawn fromStreet View. PlayThru uses Adobe Flash, HTML5, and JavaScript to serve itsgames. It automatically checks a user's browser specs and servesthe appropriate game. It works on both iOS and Android, too. Thetechnology integrates with multiple CMS platforms, includingWordPress, Drupal, PHPBB, and vBulletin. According to Reid Tatoris, COO of Are You a Human, PlayThru has ahigher retention rate than text-based CAPTCHA. Nearly 25 percent ofusers leave a website rather than complete the CAPTCHA, but sitesbeta-testing PlayThru have seen submission rates increase by up to40 percent over text-based CAPTCHA, the company claims. Completinga game takes 10 to 12 seconds on average; completing a CAPTCHA, bycontrast, takes around 16 seconds on average. From a security standpoint, the PlayThru games can't be bypassed using bots the way traditional text-based CAPTCHA can, due to the dynamicnature of the games and the random nature with which they'rerotated. They also can't be sent to low-wage workers to defeat the way text-based CAPTCHAs are. All transaction areperformed over SSL. Are You a Human offers an array of games. Tatoris says the companyis working on making it possible for developers to customize andbuild PlayThru games to suit their needs and desires. A Webdeveloper for a site aimed at, say, a more mature, professionalaudience might make PlayThru games with more muted colors andstandard shapes instead of brightly colored, silly objects.Additionally, a developer could customize games to promote aparticular brand, such as by having users drag brand-name fooditems into a cupboard. This story, " PlayThru aims to make CAPTCHA more secure and more fun ," was originally published at InfoWorld.com . Get the first word on what the important tech news really meanswith the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog . For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter . The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as Titanium Rod , Hafnium Crystal Bar, and more. For more , please visit Titanium Seamless Pipe today!
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