Archive for July, 2008

Jul 01 2008

Object based Captchas

Published by under internet,security

If traditional captchas are becoming more easy to crack with OCR software, I wonder if anyone has thought of doing a captcha where you identify the object in the image?  It seems that it would be significantly harder than recognizing text for an automated system.  If anything, it would at least spur research into object […]

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Jul 01 2008

Hit Cancel for Credit

Published by under design,technology

The user interface design snafu that bothers me the most is the “hit cancel for credit” routine while swiping your card at a local retailer.  Clearly, it would be ideal to present a choice between credit and debit with separate buttons on the touchscreen, as opposed to defaulting to debit and requiring the user to […]

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