[gui-talk] Firefox Running, CAPTCHA Solver

[albert griffith]

Steve, I've read two articles recently that discredit the whole captia
initiative.  I remember one was in C Net.  They said new stats showed this
method has had little effect on the serious spammers.  As of a couple of
weeks ago it was being used for links to articles I tried to send from the
New York times.  

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Behalf Of Steve Jacobson
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 9:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Firefox Running, CAPTCHA Solver

Peter,

This CAPTCHA business is frustrating indeed.  It should be noted, though,
that if screen readers and CAPTCHA Solver can decode CAPTCHAs, it won't be
long 
before spammers can.  In fact, I would make a case that they may do it more
quickly in some cases inasmuch as there are some very clever programmers
working in 
the spam and virus area, unfortunately.  In particular, OCR-based solutions
will be short-lived because spammers themselves will arrive at the same
approaches.  As 
long as CAPTCHA Solver works, people might as well use it, but the long term
answer is going to have to be more complex, although it may involve screen
readers.

On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:27:38 -0600, Peter Donahue wrote:

>Hello Cindy and listers,

>Thanks for the information. I tried creating an account, but was thwarted
by 
>the invitation code. I sent them an invitation request and was told that I 
>would hear back soon. I wonder how soon is soon to those people. Last year 
>FS gave us Tandem in JAWS 10. It would be wonderful if they would include a

>mechanism for dealing with CAPTCHAS in Version 11. I would also hope that 
>the other screen reader vendors would do the same too. If the Web Vism
folks 
>can find a way to enable Firefox to solve CAPTCHAS it's about time screen 
>reader manufacturers did likewise. Sorry for the rant.

>    Peter Donahue who highly favors instant gratification over invitations 
>that may come on a donkey.


>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Cindy Handel" <cindy425 at verizon.net>
>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 8:29 PM
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Firefox Running, CAPTCHA Solver


>Peter,

>Go to:

>www.webvisum.com/

>Yes, it is an add on.

>Cindy
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue1 at sbcglobal.net>
>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Cc: "NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List" <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 7:48 PM
>Subject: [gui-talk] Firefox Running, CAPTCHA Solver


>Good evening everyone,

>    Tonight I'm pleased to report that Firefox is running on both of our
>computers. I believe the CAPTCHA solver is an add-in is this correct? Where
>do I get it? Thanks again for your help.

>Peter Donahue


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