A Captcha that would be nice to see in Dolphin

This is a really good captcha that would awesome to see integrated into Dolphin. It would eliminate bot registrations and could even provide a good way to stop bot postings if a human registered first.

It's big, but it's really a great solution to a long standing problem. I think it's far better than the captcha that Dolphin is using now.

What do you think? Anyone up to making a mod?

http://www.nucaptcha.com/

I like it.

I have this installed on a WordPress site I'm currently working on and it is really, really nice.

There is a potential drawback in that the api makes offsite calls, but it also takes any load (or other issuses) created by captcha off of your server that way too - since they process it themselves..

Nice.

Here is another Captcha you might like: http://www.confidenttechnologies.com/demos/captcha-demo

Anything works better than the Boonex Captcha ... which was cracked ages ago.

What they should do is update the basic captcha that comes with Dolphin and create another captcha plugin. Then all they have to do is enable their captcha by default and have the plugin disabled. Anyone who wants to use the plugin can go to the company site and create an account, get the keys and everything else needed for the plugin, disable the basic Captcha and enable the plugin.

At this point they could even use Recaptcha ... which has also already been cracked.

If they don't do it for Dolphin 7 I hope they at least consider doing it for Dolphin 8.

Nucaptcha is not very accessible since it requires Flash and Dolphin 8 should abandon Flash except for the webcam.

So it will certainly not integrated with Dolphin, but if you have knowledge in PHP is easy to do yourself.

There are also some Captcha plugins for Dolphin on the BoonEx store

It's actually a very bad idea, because it relies on the unholy plugin.  I don't want to have to reboot or switch computers to sign up for a site.

I've seen the plugins and I think AndrewP is doing a great job by providing the community with his QapTcha and Recaptcha plugins. His plugins aren't even that expensive ether and he seems like a really good programmer. I also think there should be more alternatives so that people have more to choose from.

But the thing is at the moment enabling the captcha within dolphin or disabling it makes very little difference and it hasn't been fixed or updated in a very long time. Problem is even if they did update or fix it, I'm sure it would probably be cracked within days.

I figure the only solution is to ether update it more often or provide the community with another captcha alternative. If I'm not mistaken, other scripts are already doing this or at least some of the scripts I have tried are.

It just seems sad that you have to buy other plugins or make changes to the script yourself to keep spammers from joining your site.

Dolphin 8 seems to be their top priority now so most new features and updates will probably only be seen when it finally comes out. A new Captcha being one of them as a ticket posted in the Track section 9 months ago would suggest.

My point was that the captcha in Dolphin has been cracked and it is useless against spam bots. It needs to be updated. Then again if it is updated it will be cracked anyway. So something else would have to be done. The only other solution is to add another captcha that requires you to connect to a 3rd party for it to work. That way the spammers can't just download the script, find the captcha code and create bots that bypass it(as they have done so far).

It's like a puzzle ... you have half of the puzzle, the 3rd party has the other half and the user has to put it together. With the Boonex Captcha you have the whole puzzle and the spammers have a copy of the puzzle so they know how to put it together. But it would make things more difficult for them if they didn't have access to the whole puzzle.

This isn't just meant for Dolphin 7, this is also meant for Dolphin 8 and above. If they don't do something about it the same thing will happen in future versions of Dolphin. So it wouldn't really matter which captcha was added as long as the spammers couldn't get their hands on all of the parts needed to make it work.

If you're referring to the captcha with the scissor icon ("drag it here!"), that's the worse captcha available.  It's easy to manipulate with a script.  reCaptcha is much better.

 Just about anything will work in Dolphin as long as very few people are using it. If it's added to Dolphin and everyone has it ... spammers will crack it. I don't see them wasting their time building bots to go after smaller groups of users using other methods to keep them out when what they really want is to spam the biggest group of users all using the same method.

There is no security through obscurity, especially with a popular captcha plugin.