Can You Write a Sure-fire Algorithm to Stop Bots?

[Shoe Lace]

I don't think we have the technology yet to 100% fully prevent them without making the normal user's experience extremely annoying -- to the point of it being unplayable.

One idea might be to have poker sites send out audio based basic math problems randomly. Then, you would have to answer through a mic. Using voice recognition this is possible today, but it would be horribly inconvenient.

Imagine playing 12 tables and having to solve 12 answers while trying to figure out odds/etc..

I wouldn't like it. I'd rather my opponents can't solve basic math problems. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[jjshabado]

Not sure if I understand your point. With current voice recognition software and voice emulation you could have software answer these questions correctly.

[StevieG]

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Not sure if I understand your point. With current voice recognition software and voice emulation you could have software answer these questions correctly.

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Yes. In fact the smaller the set of expected inputs, the better voice recognition software is. In this case, spoke math problems would have a very small set of inputs.

[Shoe Lace]

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Not sure if I understand your point. With current voice recognition software and voice emulation you could have software answer these questions correctly.

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Maybe when you create an account you have to activate it by phone. During this phone conversation you'll be asked to speak a few random sentences by the rep.

They'll log your voice pattern, and if the random math answers aren't the same pattern as your original activation pattern then your account gets disabled.

Seems like a bit much, but until we get some type of keyboard that can verify finger prints on the fly and send them over a network I really can't see how they can stop bots.

I'm sure when this technology comes there will be a way around it though.