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bbrizzi on Oct 28, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: AI Startup Says It Has Defeated Captchas

I know what a honeypot (fake field that only bots fill out) but what's a timegate trap? Googling didn't bring up anything relevant.

Does it check how long it took the user/bot to fill up the form and dismisses it if it was too fast?

borplk on Oct 28, 2013 [–]

yes as far as I know you got it right, you somehow keep track of when the form was presented to the user and compare that with the current time when a response comes in

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