CAPTCHA THE DOG

a SPAM FILTER preventing ROBOTS from using your webforms

CAPTCHA THE DOG is a powerful new weapon in the fight against malicious Automated Computer Systems (ROBOTS) that prowl the Web harvesting email addresses, signing up vulnerable sites for unwanted spam, and “scraping content” for unauthorized reuse.

CAPTCHA is the standard term for Completely Automated Public Turing Test. This technology was developed to determine whether an entity attempting to access a website’s webforms is human or automated.

With CAPTCHA THE DOG’s custom application, you take control of your website’s security. You choose the images and upload them from your computer.

From 9 images displayed in a 3-by-3 grid, visitor’s to your site must select the correct image (for example, one dog randomly placed among 8 cats, testing 5 times) to prove to the webform that the visitor is in fact human.

Though a ROBOT could correctly guess (1 out of 59,049 or 1 out of 531,441 possibilities) the IP will be blocked after a reasonable amount of wrong guesses.

Once the grid displays 9 cats and no dogs (or whichever image system the site owner has chosen) the visitor clicks the "send" button delivering a positive response. If the visitor fails, the test is reset.

The entire process takes a few seconds. It’s easier to use and more secure than traditional text-based CAPTCHA applications. It works with non-text-based hand-held devices such as iPhone.

CAPTCHA THE DOG is superior to other CAPTCHA technologies because it is designed to allow each individual website to have its own customized unique combination of images. This means a Spamer or other malicious web prowler would have to build an OPTICAL RECOGNITION ROBOT specifically for your site, AND as fast as he or she could do that, you can swap out your images—wahla—a brand new security system!

In short: Thousands of uniquely different CAPTCHA THE DOG applications are infinitely stronger than one CAPTCHA application being used over and over again on thousands of websites.

Are you looking for a new CAPTCHA?
This is the last CAPTCHA you'll ever use!!

A word on the endless CAPTCHA vs. ROBOT technology race:
To meet the challenges presented by ever-evolving SPAM ROBOTS, CAPTCHAs become increasingly more difficult for humans to understand. Eventually humans won't be able to solve them at all. This is already happening with the AUDIO CAPTCHAs used for the visually impaired. But, by throttling down the CAPTCHA vs. ROBOTS technology race, CAPTCHA THE DOG makes it easier to detect spam and change image/audio libraries (and less expensive) before ROBOTs can be re-tooled for subsequent attacks.

The strength behind CAPTCHA THE DOG’s ability to tell Computers and Humans apart is based on website owner's (human) selection from an ever-increasing library of images. CAPTCHA THE DOG takes into account the fact that anything a computer creates (obscured letter images or 3-D modeling) will inevitably be exploited by an attacking computer. As the famous Samuel Scharff said, "The defense always loses, if the attacker persists."

By changing the rules and integrating human creativity, CAPTCHA THE DOG defeats the persistent attacker every time.

Again, we recognize a ROBOT can ALWAYS be developed to break through ANY CAPTCHA even this one. We offer CAPTCHA THE DOG to exhaust the attacker's energy by eliminating their ability to successfully spam any webform more than once.