Thanks Steve

Can you put a copy of the writeup (of the rules and restrictions for what is 
captured) into the root of the Onboarding folder?

thanks

gregg

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Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
Director , Trace R&D Center, UMD
Co-Founder Raising the Floor. http://raisingthefloor.org 
<http://raisingthefloor.org/>
And the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) http://GPII.net 
<http://gpii.net/>




> On Mar 26, 2020, at 12:20 PM, Steven Githens <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Short version:
> 
> I’ve put up another personal beta build of the Morphic Capture Tool if anyone 
> would like to try it.  As always this is an in-progress build so don’t use it 
> on your primary productive windows instance.
> 
> The download and basic instructions are here:
> 
> https://github.com/sgithens/gpii-app/releases/tag/2019-03-24 
> <https://github.com/sgithens/gpii-app/releases/tag/2019-03-24>
> 
> As part of refinements for operating remotely, and running on users home 
> machines, we’ve added the ability to log in with a key on screen 4 if you’re 
> not keyed in to Morphic already.  
> 
> https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/361700/77585767-4800f100-6ea2-11ea-8187-3b3f7c37bc78.png
>  
> <https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/361700/77585767-4800f100-6ea2-11ea-8187-3b3f7c37bc78.png>
> 
> If you don’t have access to a key on our cloud and would like one to test 
> with, you can email me. ( sgithens AT raisingthefloor.org 
> <http://raisingthefloor.org/> )  Additionally you can report any comments and 
> bugs to me ( or on list if it’s general architectural engineering thinking ), 
> or open a jira and assign it to me.
> 
> More detail:
> 
> As noted above this build adds the ability to key in with an input box and 
> button, which is an important first step I believe to moving forward with 
> logging in either via key or username/password from Morphic itself. Until now 
> we’ve either relied on custom deployment userfolder provisioning, USB sticks, 
> the task tray dev menu, etc.  As part of our move towards completely remote 
> protocols for both case studies and general users, this is suddenly very 
> important. (Imagine trying to test wit the capture tool, and fumbling around 
> with the user over screen sharing plugging USB drives in and out).
> 
> In the instructions you’ll see that only a limited number of settings can 
> actually be saved to the cloud at the moment, lest you’ll get an error.  
> After running the capture tool, you’ll see that there are indeed, far far 
> more settings and solutions captured than we can currently save.  A short and 
> incomplete refresher on why this is.
> 
> Probably one of the most complex and challenging aspects of the GPII has 
> always been dealing with the interfaces and sometimes odd quirks of the 
> installed and built-in AT available on computers, and the way they interface 
> with each other in sometimes very surprising ways.  Honestly, tracking and 
> testing these interactions is much more work than actually writing the 
> solution entry for them.  Because of this, and our desire for AT interactions 
> to not foul up public machines and users machines, the settings that are 
> currently allowed for saving in the public cloud have been very thoroughly 
> testing for unexpected and detrimental combinations of usage, making sure 
> they are safe for machines.  In addition to putting machines in odd states, 
> solutions also need to thoroughly vetted for other issues, such as something 
> I like to call SettingsInjections Vulnerabilities, similar in vein to XSS or 
> SQL injections.  If an AT product allows free text settings, and these are 
> used in some portion of the application, there could be serious security 
> implications.  This is another reason that the settings we currently allow 
> saving all have strong validation, the text fields are enumerated types, etc 
> etc. 
> 
> Via our Client Credential System, we have the opportunity to allow 
> configurations for some users that allow saving more AT if and when the need 
> arises, but for our general public users, the current set remains small, and 
> while it will expand over time, requires very careful vetting.
> 
> For the Capture Tool Case Studies and testing we will have a special client 
> credential available to capture all these AT, but the payloads will need to 
> be reviewed before and if they are used for key-in.
> 
> Enjoy! To the Max!
> Steve (Hens)
> 
> 
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gregg

———————————
Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
Director , Trace R&D Center, UMD




gregg

———————————
Professor, University of Maryland, College Park
Director , Trace R&D Center, UMD
Co-Founder Raising the Floor. http://raisingthefloor.org
And the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII) http://GPII.net




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