Edit: I accidentally refreshed the page and it offered alternative questions for ID validation, such as high school of graduation and SSN. But it’s still absurd to expect someone to even humor the premise of the prompt.

  • @SwordInStoneEnglish
    1•1 month ago

    how is it security through obscurity?

    • @[email protected]English
      4•1 month ago

      Someone looking to specifically break this website’s captcha wouldn’t have a hard time.

      But bots using off-the-shelf captcha solvers will be screened out en masse, because how many of them are equipped to correctly answer this stupidly specific question? That’s the obscurity.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 month ago

        But you’d have to purposefully code it, you cant just have it automatically done using a library