• Shanedino@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Fun fact not only to captchas monitor your input but also can analyze how you input it. If you mouse moves in a perfectly straight line if all your key presses are precisely spaced, you are probably not human.

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        3 months ago

        Sure two additional cases not that bad, now just keep adding them up. Like anything security related it’s not 100% perfect you just have to make it annoying to break.

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          3 months ago

          Meanwhile mathematicians working on cryptography: the universe will die before you get even 10% chance of cracking encryption.

          Security by obscurity is no security.

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            No. Security through obscurity is bad security, but it’s still an additional layer. And since there’s literally no way to 100% ensure that a machine is being controlled by a human, there’s literally no other way except saying “fuck it” and not doing any security at all.

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          Security by design is 100% perfect. Security by obscurity is far from it