Zhihu netizen Baby Pig made a lot of searches according to the traces left by the 12306 webpage code. The final result shows that the outsourcing company of 12306 photo verification code is Hangzhou Micro-Touch Technology Co., Ltd. and the legal person is Song Chao.
According to the data, the investor behind Hangzhou Micro-Touch Technology Co., Ltd. is Media DreamWorks Venture Capital, which is jointly initiated by Media DreamWorks, Ali Capital and * * *. 12306 officially launched the graphic verification code service in March this year. Coincidentally, at this node, Hangzhou Micro-Touch Technology has made continuous equity changes.
According to the national industrial and commercial information query, in March of 18, the early investor "Hao" of the company disappeared, and then in May this year, the company added a new investor named "Gong Tian".
According to previous media reports, Micro-Touch Technology was formerly the Entrepreneurship Studio of Harbin Engineering University. At first, I set up a studio in the school and made money by outsourcing projects such as website access, webpage production and mobile App development. 2011110 Song Chao, a master student majoring in network information security in the School of Computer Science of our school, took over the studio.
On April 20 12, team Song Chao signed up for the new media entrepreneurship competition and won the grand prize with the "Touch Verification Code". Then Media DreamWorks received 2 million yuan of venture capital, and the team technology held 90% of the shares. Besides Song Chao, there are two other partners, namely Zhong Hao and Zhang Yang. After obtaining the investment, the three people established Micro-Touch Technology Co., Ltd. Three years later, the valuation of the exposed company reached 50 million yuan, and the estimated annual net profit reached 5 million yuan.
In March this year, the website 12306 officially adopted the graphic verification code. According to China Youth Daily, this company once positioned itself as "the patentee of photo verification code of 12306 website" in an interview. "The purpose of this is to ensure the fairness of all ticket purchases. Icon-style touch verification code is the heaviest blow to scalpers. This year is also the first time that a fair ticketing environment has been truly realized since online ticketing. " The person in charge of Beijing Touch Internet Technology Co., Ltd. said.
However, the aforementioned netizens in Zhihu found that this verification code was actually based on Google's recapcha, which launched this project in 2009.
According to the data published by 360 browser, the number of graphic codes for 12306 booking verification is as high as 58 1. According to the login rules of entering two keywords, users will have the opportunity to try 336,980 different verification code topics, and the probability of entering them correctly at one time is only 8%.
The reason for the difficulty in verification is that the category of 12306 graph is about 12. At the same time, the graphics pixels are not high, and many similar items appear, so the probability of wrong selection is very high, which directly leads to the failure of users to grab tickets.
The picture verification code of 12306 has experienced simple numbers, numbers plus letters, addition and subtraction formulas, dynamic codes and deformed letters, and it was not until March this year that the graphic verification code was launched. 12306 is difficult to interpret the graphic verification code, which can effectively prevent scalpers.
"The problem now is that the verification code is so difficult to adjust, the machine can't recognize it, and the recognition of people is also difficult, which has no effect." Zhihu netizen pig big baby said.
12306 The relevant person in charge recently responded that the picture will be fine-tuned, rotated and cut. This is mainly to find a balance between making it easier for passengers to buy tickets and cracking down on ticketing software.