One thing I did was to contact Freedom Scientific about the captcha
problem. Will they do anything about it? Doubtful but one can only
hope they will.
On 1/6/2016 9:35 AM, Gerald Levy wrote:
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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