Captcha Replacement – Pictcha
by Hiroshi on March 16th, 2009

Pictcha might be the next generation form spam control solution and replacement of Captcha. Pictcha is an experiment by Yahoo! in which you have to write down two words describing an image. You will have to observe the image and extract two words from it.
On correct mentioning these will take you to the success page. This test can be more tough then the Captcha as I have found it.
Try Pictcha

Topic: Developer's Corner, New Trends
Tags: New Trends, Security, yahoo, captcha
You find it harder than common Captcha because Yahoo is as you mentioned it experimenting with this technique.
Please take a look at the following form protection technique called UTYP Pictcha:
http://utyp.net/pictcha-sample.php
The project is up and running for 3 years now. It’s a little bit disconcerting but it works.