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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: Rook on September 01, 2011, 02:40 am

Title: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: Rook on September 01, 2011, 02:40 am
Has anyone else felt like the SR captcha has been especially foreboding recently?

It doesn't help that I've been randomly getting logged out of my account while conducting business as usual.  One minute replying to customers, the next being asked for my login info..

after being creeped out by two eerie captcha's, I decided to refresh and refresh, and refresh.. no joke, this is what I got:

1eave289
fleE128
readi911
purge417
grave109
beDs689
talk40
diVid940
octo435
deAth679
blanK315
resPo429

I feel like SR is trying to tell me something..
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: happytree on September 01, 2011, 02:48 am
Whoah. Something or someone is DEFINITELY trying to tell you something. My Captcha was "state" with a few numbers tonight (I did think that somewhat ironic). I think they changed part of the captcha process, which is good because it was taking me 4-6 times to log in with how hard they were.

That being said, yours are friggin creepy. I'd take heed, my friend...take heed.
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: EnterTheMatrix on September 01, 2011, 03:00 am
lol... Relax guys, I think everyone gets a little paranoid sometimes... It's natural in this business :P
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: happytree on September 01, 2011, 03:11 am
I just tried the refreshing game.

Last one: warni666
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: EnterTheMatrix on September 01, 2011, 03:26 am
I just tried the refreshing game.

Last one: warni666

eek!
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: novocaine on September 01, 2011, 03:38 am
LOL

if you get cOppS911

RUN:)
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: j789745 on September 01, 2011, 04:06 am
@happytree - Agreed. Whatever they did, I'm loving it. Logging in used to be a real hassle.
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: EnterTheMatrix on September 01, 2011, 07:08 am
I see what you guys mean... I just got guard017

lol  ;D
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: outlaw55 on September 01, 2011, 10:45 am
Yesterday I got "joint" in the captcha. Thought it was just a coincidence. Lol
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: wretched on September 01, 2011, 03:15 pm
you are a bunch of paranoid drug addicts. If Silk road was trying to tell us something, I think he would just tell us instead of leaving cryptic clues to what he is trying to say in the login captcha
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: RandolphCarter on September 01, 2011, 05:57 pm
my guess is they made a change in the selection algorithm for the captcha; it seems like it's using stems of dictionary words for the first several characters.  i for one, welcome our new captcha algorithm overlords.  imo, it probably doesn't make it much easier for a bot to login, and yet it makes it easier for us real humans (looks around) to perform what is an inconvenient part of the process.

reminds me of a good password generator out there called SOPPG (sort-of-pronounceable password generator)
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: F104 on September 01, 2011, 07:02 pm
you are a bunch of paranoid drug addicts.

Oh yeah? Well, I think SR is in concrete shoes at the bottom of a lake, LE has taken over, and they are fucking with us for the short time until they can hoover up enough evidence to indict the worst 2,000 felons here. And then it's one of the FEMA camps for 'em.
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: fable on September 01, 2011, 07:16 pm
I love the new captcha as well. Doesn't take more than one try when I'm fucked up like all those random letters and numbers did =P
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: btcfreedom on September 01, 2011, 10:07 pm
it is indeed bugged out. i noticed this too.

algo change in captchacode.

i've been getting ones that make me laugh too

shove167
lamps45
finger39

L75
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: Gall Anonim on September 02, 2011, 12:22 am
this is perfectly normal optimization being introduced here.
the purpose of the captcha is to make OCR (Optical Character Recognition) difficult for a machine, so that no mass spamming / account creation can take place. to a computer program doing OCR it is irrelevant if the characters have a meaning or not (though one could argue that brute force dictionary attack could be easier, but since those are random, then it's a moot point) BUT it makes it much easier for a person to get it right. I can't tell you how many times I fucked up the random ones. The new ones are much easier to punch in!

Good job devs!
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: Rook on September 02, 2011, 01:22 am
you are a bunch of paranoid drug addicts.

Oh yeah? Well, I think SR is in concrete shoes at the bottom of a lake, LE has taken over, and they are fucking with us for the short time until they can hoover up enough evidence to indict the worst 2,000 felons here. And then it's one of the FEMA camps for 'em.

I knew it!

And to top it off, every US-based vender ranked above me has disappeared from the SR listings since this started happening! 

I don't know about the rest of you's guys, but I can take a hint.

-Rook out!

peace
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: Freeman on September 02, 2011, 02:44 am
I agree that I like the more "logical" captchas.  I haven't gotten any creepy ones yet, but that's awesome.
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: nomad bloodbath on September 02, 2011, 03:00 am
Captcha's have been super easy today.
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: btcfreedom on September 02, 2011, 12:05 pm
you are a bunch of paranoid drug addicts.

Oh yeah? Well, I think SR is in concrete shoes at the bottom of a lake, LE has taken over, and they are fucking with us for the short time until they can hoover up enough evidence to indict the worst 2,000 felons here. And then it's one of the FEMA camps for 'em.

get the fuck off my internet lawn with that crap. LE has taken over nothing but another box of donuts.

L75
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: Knives on September 02, 2011, 10:11 pm
This was the last thread i looked at before logging out...Next time i logged in i was kinda interested in what i would get since i wasnt really paying attention to the new captchas.....and i get

jail355

think im out!! i can take a hint.....
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: j789745 on September 02, 2011, 11:51 pm
"analy535"

hmm... ;)
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: redtide on September 03, 2011, 01:17 am
Has anyone else felt like the SR captcha has been especially foreboding recently?

It doesn't help that I've been randomly getting logged out of my account while conducting business as usual.  One minute replying to customers, the next being asked for my login info..

after being creeped out by two eerie captcha's, I decided to refresh and refresh, and refresh.. no joke, this is what I got:

1eave289
fleE128
readi911
purge417
grave109
beDs689
talk40
diVid940
octo435
deAth679
blanK315
resPo429

I feel like SR is trying to tell me something..

redrum666  :o
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: happytree on September 03, 2011, 03:19 am
speaking of disappearing acts, anyone seen Phuliablues since Normal (nomad) was asking about him/her?
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: sunkist on September 03, 2011, 05:41 am
just got catch225 ..  :o
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: EnterTheMatrix on September 03, 2011, 07:22 am
They are entertaining and easy to input. I like the new system!
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: wowzers on September 04, 2011, 08:16 pm
ffs  ???

watch232
buSt113
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: TheProfessor on September 04, 2011, 08:30 pm
I dont think people realize that regluar LE is not the ones trying to stop this site.. regular police hardly even have any education behind them and if you are an educated person yourself these are not the guys to worry about they are on call to the town that your in and only to respond to when called or when they see that something is going on, If you get caught by a regular uniform police officer you messed up or you told them something, the real LE that SR should be worried about is CIA, FBI, DEA, 3 letter agencies, these are the real police officers.
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: sunkist on September 04, 2011, 08:37 pm
I dont think people realize that regluar LE is not the ones trying to stop this site.. regular police hardly even have any education behind them and if you are an educated person yourself these are not the guys to worry about they are on call to the town that your in and only to respond to when called or when they see that something is going on, If you get caught by a regular uniform police officer you are messed up or you told them something, the real LE that SR should be worried about is CIA, FBI, DEA, 3 letter agencies, these are the real police officers.

I don't think anyone's suggest local PD/LE would be a major cause for concern.
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: erko78 on September 05, 2011, 08:44 pm
I got sex379.....I wonder what it's trying to tell me...haha!
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: sickboy on September 05, 2011, 08:52 pm
Okay. So I was just driving my car and the radiator lost coolant. When I got home I strated looking for a radiator specialist in my area using the same browser I access SR. Then, naturally, I hit silk road and the capta was "radia393". I swear on my mother's life.
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: MrDdroMcGillacutty on September 05, 2011, 11:51 pm
speaking of disappearing acts, anyone seen Phuliablues since Normal (nomad) was asking about him/her?

I too have been wondering the same.
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: pulpfictionbro on September 06, 2011, 11:03 pm
I am happy that they changed the captcha system, it was friggin' hard to type in the captcha when i was high, i could barely read it let alone type in a bunch of random letters.
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: DigitalAlch on September 07, 2011, 04:45 am
Dictionary list friends. Dont fret too much.
  The black copters have yet to come over the horizon.

Though in my own paranoid note anyone else notice GreenCo has been gone for over a week? Seems odd.

Peace,
DigitalAlch
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: buzzerbee on September 08, 2011, 04:11 pm
Got the strangest one earlier.  The captcha said "bill383" which just so happens to have been a cyber crime bill  ???
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: bjhaus on September 10, 2011, 05:29 am
They're not so creepy. The other day I logged into Tradehill to get some BTC to buy some SR goodies and got the captcha 'NARC'  :o
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: DigitalAlch on September 10, 2011, 06:48 pm
I got hashs929 and have yet to get a weird one.

Peace,
DigitalAlch
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: watmm on September 14, 2011, 09:00 am
Just got 'sting703'.
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: Froggy on September 14, 2011, 05:04 pm
joint234
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: Dieterkologe on September 14, 2011, 06:31 pm
busts911 -today. One more of that kind and im ready for the fuckin´madhouse!
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: watmm on September 14, 2011, 07:12 pm
You know this thread isn't very good for security.
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: happytree on September 14, 2011, 07:25 pm
I think it's pretty funny people think all these are just "coincidental" captchas. I have NEVER seen the kind of words that people have posted here ANYWHERE on ANY website, EVER. Even if they're pulling from a dictionary. What the hell are the odds? 
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: towelie on September 15, 2011, 03:37 am
Since this thread started mine have all been relatively benign.
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: Rook on September 15, 2011, 07:56 am
Since this thread started mine have all been relatively benign.

It seems they're afraid they've gone too far and blown their cover. I'd advise everyone to stay alert and make sure to report any suspicious activity from the SR captcha.  I believe SR has become infested with some sort of bit-spook.
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: wretched on September 28, 2012, 04:04 pm
my favorite captcha to date

http://xfq5l5p4g3eyrct7.onion/view.php?image=1f98228e22a456fd170329cca7eb60cd.jpg
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: sitamaja1 on September 28, 2012, 04:18 pm
Lol, I've got these too, but my favourites were: RUN12, Flee01 and so on :D

~~sitamaja
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: WinstonWolfe on September 28, 2012, 09:24 pm
I look forward to the captcha each tiime I log in.  More times than not it is something that's at least a little macabre--decap713, exsang75, noose101 etc.  Thrills my twisted soul...
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: spegrodomous on September 28, 2012, 09:29 pm
I got ANALY today
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: lucidmatrix on September 28, 2012, 09:29 pm
I've been getting very creepy ones lately too, but haven't been writing them down. I decided to log out and see what I would get.

The first: bones852
Refresh: large58
Last: memor268
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: gestaltassault2 on September 29, 2012, 07:57 pm
if i were a hacker...this thread would be a great way to collect a list of captchas to program my bot with...
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: BlarghRawr on September 29, 2012, 09:25 pm
if i were a hacker...this thread would be a great way to collect a list of captchas to program my bot with...
That's not how captcha works. Your bot would be laughably terrible if you just used a list of stuff people have already encountered. Roughly speaking, given the random-number at the end of the words, you'd have a 1 in 1000 chance of your bot getting the captcha right. It would be easier to program it with the ability to figure out what the text is.
Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: Twelve_Pickles on September 29, 2012, 09:50 pm
STROOP!
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Post by: StExo on September 30, 2012, 11:11 pm
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Title: Re: Creepy New Captcha's?
Post by: Daft Phader on October 03, 2012, 01:21 am
..this thread is funny...i have gotten a few recently ,,that just strait creeped me out ..kinda law related ,like some of the ones already posted ...i won't even post them here .Cause im new here ,and i don't want anybody thinking im a punk ass buster,on the wrong team.......interesting subject to say the least.....