[nabs-l] FW: a new type of captcha

T. Joseph Carter carter.tjoseph at gmail.com
Sun Apr 12 14:54:19 UTC 2009


Liz,

I've submitted a comment, complete with a suggestion for how to do it 
the way a blind person would need to.

Greatly amused by the use of a toilet in a CAPTCHA.

Joseph

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:23:16PM -0400, Liz Bottner wrote:
>Hi, 
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>I thought this might interest some.
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>Liz
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>email: 
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>liz.bottner at gmail.com 
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>Hi all. I read an article about a new type of captcha that could leave
>us in
>
>the dark all over again, so I thought it would be of interest. It's
>based on
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>3D image-identification. See
>http://news.cnet.com:80/8301-17938_105-10204300-1.html?tag=nl.e703
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>I tried to contact YUNiTi, the captcha's designers, but of course the
>contact form had the same style of captcha. So I contacted the article's
>author, who was kind enough to put me in touch with the co-founder of
>the
>company. The poor guy was stimied by the idea of giving us a viable
>alternative, but he says if anyone has one, he'd be happy to hear it.
>So...if anybody does, email me off list and I'll give you the
>co-founder's
>email address. he said I could give it out as long as I didn't post it
>anywhere.
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>I hope, by getting this article out there, someone might have a flash of
>brilliance that might help us all, since if this takes hold, it would
>render
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>WebVisum obsolete.
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