I think the reason why website authors used the idea of the CAPTCHA is
because it was the only solution they could think of to provide some way
of thwarting spammers and web bots at the time, and therefore the wide
spread use of these little devils, to add to what Gerald said.
On 1/6/2016 9:53 AM, Cindy Ray wrote:
Gerald, do you belong to a blind advocacy group? Either one of them? It is
pretty amazing to make a statement like this if you don't: And the reason this
situation exists in the first place is that the blindness advocacy groups which
are supposed to look out for our best interests have shown absolutely no
willingness to challenge online sellers who insist on confronting their
customers, blind and sighted alike, with image captchas whose value at
thwarting hackers is dubious at best.
We who are blind are all responsible for helping to make the changes. Much
change has been made; some of this issue has been worked on as well. Probably
the reason for audio captchas has something to do with blind advocacy groups. I
don't for the life understand how people self-righteously make statements like
this, yet they are not willing to stand with us and work on the problems.
Cindy
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Levy [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 8:35 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What is the issue with Captchas?
And the reason this situation exists in the first place is that the blindness
advocacy groups which are supposed to look out for our best interests have
shown absolutely no willingness to challenge online sellers who insist on
confronting their customers, blind and sighted alike, with image captchas whose
value at thwarting hackers is dubious at best.
Gerald
-----Original Message-----
From: judith bron
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 9:18 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What is the issue with Captchas?
And the only people excluded from making the statement they're human by
identifying a captia are the blind. Sounds like a totally messed up system but
we're still captive.
-----Original Message-----
From: Cindy Ray [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2016 8:42 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What is the issue with Captchas?
No, it isn't proof enough maybe, but it is one of the stones to barriers.
There is no such thing as 100% safe.
Cindy
-----Original Message-----
From: judith bron [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 6, 2016 7:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What is the issue with Captchas?
I have been following this thread and still the question I have about captias
for ages is still not answered. We have criminal minds who spend their time
messing up people's lives by hacking their information via their on line
accounts and stealing their identity. We have folks who steal people's address
books and try to extort money from their family and friends. We are supposed
to recognize an image so we can prove we're human and not robots. What can
someone sitting on the other end of a computer in srilanka know about my status
as a human being if I can tell him what some captia reads? If they would
create the captias so we could read them back character by character problem
solved, but that isn't proof enough that we're not devious. Judith
-----Original Message-----
From: Kane Brolin [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 8:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What is the issue with Captchas?
It will be a while before CAPTCHAs are stopped. This might happen, once
compatibility with mobile browsing becomes a universal standard.
But the provider of online info related to my Visa card, for example, requires
me to verify a CAPTCHA every time I sign in. Not just to change account
settings or to do some other specialized or sensitive task--just to log in to
check my points!
The muddy/hard-to-understand nature of the audio CAPTCHA is the whole point.
They want something that requires subjective, human perception to
understand--not just a clear voice-print that dictation software could
translate automatically into text in the way that Grasshopper does with a
voicemail message.
-Kane
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