The Hardest Captcha.
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Hello people of Digg (and more importantly, Flickr).
This has, for quite some time, been a great pet peeve. It's 2008, and with an almost certainty every spammer has, or can easily gain access to personal data. It is a fight that we will always be behind on, and like locking up your bike, the best one can hope for is that malice passes by.
More importantly, there is an abundance of incredibly interesting and fantastic people to be found. People whose lives and idea[l]s inspire conversation. By obfuscating what are already incredibly accessible means of communication, one is simply making it more difficult for people who would like to share these thoughts.
So for anyone who is interested, the mobile number in the photo is actually quite old. My latest contact info is:
phone: (415) 279-6244
email/jabber: anotherbritt@gmail.com
web: lukewarmtapioca.com
twitter: twitter.com/bs
This information is and always will be available via the web. I do believe this will make for an excellent article on social presence and privacy. I've gotten many SMSs (which I've responded to all of), and many phone calls (which I've let go to voicemail).
Also, as I predicted in my comment on the Digg article, I did see the Bond movie tonight. It was OK. I'll be, with great fever, hacking on Twitter all week, and at the beach this weekend with the pup.
Comments and faves
â–“â–’â–‘ TORLEY â–‘â–’â–“, WarriorMare, StonedWheat, Geoff Myers (.net), and 38 other people added this photo to their favorites.
DazzlinDonna (43 months ago | reply)
Wow that is impossible to read! Would love to know where that captcha was used. Personally, I like using PuzzCAPTCHA because it thwarts the bad guys, but is fun for the user, and results in readable text.
ackoblog (43 months ago | reply)
cnzf
translucent_blue (43 months ago | reply)
WTF?
tugstein (43 months ago | reply)
Hopefully that's not your real number... :]
Eric Andersson (43 months ago | reply)
I like all the personal info.
spo22a (43 months ago | reply)
Now people know your name, DOB and mobile?
i do hope they're all wrong
Soliz Photography (43 months ago | reply)
I would hide that Cell number asap, unless it is fake?
kyboyn502 (43 months ago | reply)
hey, if that numbers right..your from KY..awesome
jesoki589 (43 months ago | reply)
dont want to be a smart ass but, i think the letters are
oop yea cnzj
you can see a stint of the letters in light gray near the top towards the right
Habib Allahdad (43 months ago | reply)
cnzf, easything
Mulling it Over (43 months ago | reply)
what
pazimzadeh2001 (43 months ago | reply)
yea it's cnzf, but not it's not easy...don't pretend
Alex P. Joseph (43 months ago | reply)
pzf
I can see it.
K Heitz (43 months ago | reply)
once I figured out where the letters actually were it was pretty easy.
cemre (43 months ago | reply)
remove your phone number.
Pentadact (43 months ago | reply)
Jeez, I'm so sick of androids clogging up comment threads like this.
legendsaber (43 months ago | reply)
cnzf
Hard to pick out but once you see it it's kinda difficult to miss.
Britt Selvitelle (43 months ago | reply)
This is one of my greatest pet peeves. It's 2008: every spammer can easily attain your personal information. By obfuscating it, you are simply making it harder on people who want to talk to you about interesting things, such as a blog post, twitter update, etc.
For science's sake! It's all over the web. It's on the slides of every talk I give. That phone number is actually old but my latest contact info is:
phone: (415) 279-6244
email/jabber: anotherbritt@gmail.com
twitter: twitter.com/bs
blog: lukewarmtapioca.com
birthday: March 31, 1981
I also enjoy a variety of extra-curricular activities and am thinking about seeing the new Bond movie tonight.
mvandemar (43 months ago | reply)
No, don't remove your number... real quick, while this is on Digg, rent a 900 line and call forward your number!
Benj Haisch (43 months ago | reply)
Hahaha
danielguss (43 months ago | reply)
You are exactly one day older then me. haha
camera_obscura [busy] (43 months ago | reply)
I can't see anything. I could never get those magic eye pictures either.
defektev (43 months ago | reply)
Why can't we just drop this crap of having everyone register to every lame ass site we want to browse for no more than 30 seconds? I personally never come near a site again that has stupid crap like this.
known human (43 months ago | reply)
Yeah, they really make ya squint, don't they? I'm saying cnzf, which a few others figured out ahead of me.
Tom284 (43 months ago | reply)
did anybody here figure it out?
shoppingoak.com/freebies
2323232323 [deleted] (43 months ago | reply)
Probably not brilliant to leave your cell and email in a picture that ended up on the Digg.com first page!
Ofenza Sojo (43 months ago | reply)
spiderweb. pretty obvious to me!
Alex Winchester (43 months ago | reply)
wow.
56.. THOUSAND
views.
3cala (43 months ago | reply)
spiderweb? nothing in that captcha is obvious to me. They're getting harder and stupider all the time. Most annoying.
david__cooper (43 months ago | reply)
I see a schooner.......
c_snapper (43 months ago | reply)
i don't even know what i'm looking at lol
anothersaab (43 months ago | reply)
wait... there are 2 Britt's in this world? we're screwed...
JoBeDream (43 months ago | reply)
Well, Im a computer so what I see in that captcha best translates into BEEP BEEP *chugga chugga chugga chugga* \\server\crashed$
2323232323 [deleted] (43 months ago | reply)
See you at the movies!
AngelaShupe.com (43 months ago | reply)
Took me longer than I'd like to finally figure out the answer to that captcha!
Sorry to see you're being hounded over information that can be found in a whois search if you own a domain (and don't set up private settings).
The Cannon with the Nikon (43 months ago | reply)
ha ha ha.. get on !!
-=.J.W.=- (43 months ago | reply)
Wow... and I thought the Youtube ones were difficult
Vinnn (43 months ago | reply)
cnzf
messianic_tendencies (43 months ago | reply)
Viewed 107,786 times! Haha, gratz! You're on Digg! Now you're a celebrity! :D
Matt McCullough (43 months ago | reply)
It's a sailboat
Steven Fiche (43 months ago | reply)
It's the first captcha where you have to be under the influence and able to see through different dimensions in order to figure it out.
arunk89 (43 months ago | reply)
The website would lose lot of customers.
denlinkbarmann (43 months ago | reply)
haha i like how all of these people think your retarded and don't realize what you posted lol. nice contacts lol
fremmedgorelse (43 months ago | reply)
mmmm.....you work with sprint, or used to......nice nice.....hahaha but guess you only have to worry about spam to ur mail and weird harrassment over the mobile....here we have to worry about kidnappers, potential killers, stalkers and people asking for money saying they0ve kidnapped ur grandma....god bless USA innit?
dreeftone (43 months ago | reply)
had no problem reading that. kind of cool actually.
Yong Hwee (43 months ago | reply)
Epic fail.
MikeonTV (43 months ago | reply)
What site is it from?
Britt Selvitelle (43 months ago | reply)
@anothersaab: I've actually met 3.
@MikeonTV: I can't remember, hard as I try. Was taken quite some time ago.
sh'm00n (43 months ago | reply)
"We won't share your email with anyone, honest."
...oh the irony at over 150,000 views.
vlbatcfcl (43 months ago | reply)
There's _Text_ in that bunch of seaweed?