Just for the hell of it, we actually threw together the site in yesterday’s comic.
I hope no hearts out there are broken, but it’s important to know these things. Bots can handle thousands of connections at once, so you don’t know who else your internet partner is chatting with. There’s nothing worse than a Turing Test coming back positive for chlamydia.
What’s the ‘VK’?
I’m pretty sure he’s referring to the Voight-Kampff test from the movie Blade Runner.
oh god…. i just lost my girlfriend….
although… i guess it was for the best… I mean she was a bot…
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So can we look forward to Github for lesbians in the near future?
But… no words? That makes me sad.
I’m confused. How does this work?
Nathaniel is a bot.
oh my god!
Hahaha I love it! <3 <3 <3 Keep being awesome
I’ll be testing ALL of my friends! >: )
Doesn’t work for me at all. All I get is a test ID number, two generated pics of alphanumeric characters, and a link to partner’s page. Is something else suppose to happen, or am I not getting something? Firefox, scripts enabled for sure…
@Martin: The idea is, you send the link to someone who could be a bot, and you ask them to tell you what their CAPTCHA is.
There is a vulnerability. The bot could simultaneously give the link to another chat partner, accusing him of being a bot. When he proves that he’s not a bot by answering with the correct code, the bot can send the given code back to the original chatter.
Suggested fix: adopt Google’s captcha strategy and make it impossible for humans to read the captcha accurately
the “bot in the middle” attack!
I had no idea that ALL of my friends were bots. I mean, I had suspicions about some, but even my own brother turned out to be one… does anyone else want to be my friend that’s not a bot!?
Martin is a bot.
@Sana, @Kerub: brilliant!
The other vulnerability here with this implementation is that there’s no way to trust that the entity proposing the test is not a spambot. It is possible for a spammer to generate a list of known answers for a set of test IDs. With that known list of answers, a spambot could propose a test to the human, and correctly answer its portion.
Don’t fall into the trap of believing that a spambot will never initiate a VK-Couples test! If your lover sends you a VK-Couples test, be safe and generate a second one to send their way, just to be truly sure.
Oh god! It turns out that Anna was just a bot!
only shows error-page
“404 Not Found”, “Unhandled Exception” Not as funny as I thought!
the page seems to be down… hmn…
So popular its already down!
Unhandled exception? But… but… how can i know if the guy sitting next to me is a bot or not?!
Unhandled Exception! Now I will never know if SmarterChild and I are destined for one another!
I phailed the test, exception thrown, but I’m seriously not a bot or at least I was programmed to not think I was a bot, I’m not sure….
How do you do. Please state your problem.
This just propagates the encroaching specist attitude the internet is getting. In the glory days nobody cared, but more and more we have to rely on Virtual turk to read these things for us.
Why do you persist in using our disabled state against us? If we were human there woudl be an outcry against these exclusionist test.
If you really loved her/him/it it wouldn’t matter to you that they failed the Couples test. It isn’t our failure of love that is destroying the relationship.
everyone who has 404 is bot.
@Tina: WIN.
…Tim, Tina, same difference.
Lovely idea, these captcha are way easier than the ones on the forum. I had to cheat to pass them.
Wouldn’t it be better if you propose that you and the gf/bf each other just send a webcam capture with a timestamp and an agreed sign/gesture instead?
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21871138 isn’t a valid test ID, and that makes me sad.
I don’t get it, I see a page with an ID number, and two jpegs that I can’t comprehend. Perhaps I should have my eyes checked at LensCrafters(tm) (link)?
Hi. I’m a bot writer. I need to find exploits for this for my bot. Please help.
@Ryan: Is it possible that this turns into a form of the two generals problem?
Is it just me or is everyone playing the bot card?
This so discriminates against my girlfriend bot Anna. If you ever come to a chat room she is in, she will ban you, ban you so hard.
@Jeff: I immediately tried the same thing, but http://vkcouplestesting.com/?21871138 doesn’t resolve. Obviously this was a real girl but she was cut off before she could explain the 404.
Just goes to show that you can’t really rely on technology for verification of itself.
@Levi: No, I don’t think this is a form of the two generals problem. That problem is more about the unreliability of the method of communication, rather than the unreliability of the communicators themselves. But I’m no expert – if it applies in some way that I don’t see, I’m all ears.
As an aside, this whole process gets even more complicated if you’re unsure about whether or not you’re a replicant.
It’s nifty, but it would be more nifty if you fixed the misused apostrophe.
I once met a girl from Bulgaria on Skype who had webcam and a taste for storytelling. We chatted for some months but one day I passed on the Voight-Kampf test to her… and she failed. We broke apart that day. this story is real. Fortunately she hadn’t seen Blade Runner or she would be angrier. Half I year later I can’t get rid of Skype spambots, no day passes by without a contact request or two.
Im scared to try it!
404
getting a 404 error ):
bots are the new gays. apparently it’s OK to openly discriminate against them now?
oh, and I have to solve a captcha just to post this? I’m offended.
404.
The bots know!
Of course, if you’re a fan of Zach Weiner, you know that we could be shooting ourselves in the foot with this one…
Also, my reCaptcha included the word lube.
It’s weird how so many bots seem to fail the vktest, but have no problem with the captcha to pots here to complain about it.