Recently I was asked if captchas.net is still secure today. My guess was it probably was not very secure, when compared to the fuzzy text of reCAPTCHA, but I wasn’t sure by how much, so I decided to look into it a bit more.

As you may know, Google has deprecated their old reCAPTCHA V1 API, in favor of their new reputation and image recognition based system. Apparently this may also in-part be because advances in text recognition software is starting to make the fuzzy text challenge obsolete.

As a research experiment, I decided to try my hand at solving captchas.net captchas with only software, and see how well I could do.