{"id":246,"date":"2007-11-11T07:12:03","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T07:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=246"},"modified":"2007-11-11T07:12:03","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T07:12:03","slug":"recaptcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2007\/11\/11\/recaptcha\/","title":{"rendered":"ReCAPTCHA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.recaptcha.net\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-734\" title=\"2007.11.10\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/2007.11.10.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Spam has always been annoying, but lately it&#8217;s been out of control. Over the past weeks, you may have noticed the crap-load of spam messages being left on my website. I had put off dealing with it since I&#8217;ve been overwhelmed by my rotations, residency interviews, board exam studying, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaptest.com\">Kaplan<\/a> work (to pay for all the traveling). Last week, after removing 75 spam messages from my last blog entry, I finally decided to install reCAPTCHA. CAPTCHA actually stands for &#8220;Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart&#8221;. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recaptcha.net\">reCAPTCHA<\/a> service I&#8217;m using is part of an online effort to digitize printed books using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Optical_character_recognition\">OCR<\/a>. Words that cannot be read are used by this program to be solved by the user before a message can be posted. This should hopefully hold off those annoying bots in the meantime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spam has always been annoying, but lately it&#8217;s been out of control. Over the past weeks, you may have noticed the crap-load of spam messages being left on my website. I had put off dealing with it since I&#8217;ve been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2007\/11\/11\/recaptcha\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}