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Yep, the ‘I'm not a robot’ tests really are getting harder

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By Katie DeightonScott Nover was trying to log in to a website on his laptop when he found himself staring at a bizarre portrait of a woodland creature wearing a jacket and vest with flowers and watermelon slices floating about. “Please click on the raccoon’s bow tie,” came the instruction.Nover, a freelance journalist, wasn’t dreaming. He had entered the strange new world of captchas – those annoying computer quizzes cooked up by web security experts to distinguish humans from nefarious bots.For years, people...

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