Isn't this a typical Quora answer? Full of filler and shitty hard-to-verify details that provide no value to the answer ("the language is encrypted twice", what the hell), and very little effort on answering the actual question (what is the purpose of CAPTCHA).
And the community rules try to block people from writing firm "you're full of shit"-like answers, even though every other answer of Quora is full of lies like "Linux is fast, because it was designed for 16-bit computers".
I had my “wow” this place might not be that good experience with Quora yesterday when I was trying to google evaluate AWS workmail.
Quite a lot of the “extremely good looking” answers on Quora straight up said that you couldn’t do e-mail in AWS. These were answers from after workmail was a thing by the way.
So I started looking at other Quora answers on stuff I wouldn’t normally need an answer for, and it’s frighteningly how often completely wrong answers look correct.
Don’t get me wrong, there is a lot of truly amazing answers as well, and it’s entirely possible that I just suck at it, but I don’t think I can always tell the amazing answer from the completely wrong one.
My experience with Quora has been that more often than not the older the answer, the better it is. I find that answers in history, are often better than in tech. It always seems like the community that initially built Quora, stopped building it further several years ago and now it's floating out in space Wile E. Coyote style.
Quora went significantly downhill a few years back. It was a combination of hordes of new users, bad moderation, and bad incentives (order in which answers get shown etc).
I was going to say the same. I don't use Quora at the moment but when I did, I'd be more interested in subjective questions (history, geographical - ie. travel etc., and more philosophical questions) rather than objective and technical questions (and answers) as I've found many of them to be simply untrue.
I looked at that and it’s pretty nifty. It actually looks like google did encrypt the client side code and implement their own JavaScript VM and that the decryption key for the source is based on variables inside the VM during execution (some kind of state) in some way and other properties from the webpage (css is mentioned). It all falls into the realm of obfuscation.
Mobile device movement variability (IMU, compass, soft vs hard press, and so on) and mouse movement variability are relatively analogous, and both can be measured and analyzed in very similar ways.
It also links to a patent describing a novel mobile captcha invented by the author, so they might have some knowledge about the domain.
It absolutely is. By appealing to nicety, you can screw people over subtly enough that it doesn't register to observers as offense, and then act offended yourself when you get pushback.
You can also add in some fundamental attribution error, as in "I am just looking out for everyone. You are being difficult. They are engaging in bad faith."
And the community rules try to block people from writing firm "you're full of shit"-like answers, even though every other answer of Quora is full of lies like "Linux is fast, because it was designed for 16-bit computers".