[Njtechdiv] Google Has Finally Killed the CAPTCHA

[Kevin]

Right you are, Dave!  The I'm not a robot thing is called recaptcha and 
the article is talking about something quite different.



On 3/18/2017 7:13 PM, David Andrews via Njtechdiv wrote:
> Tracy,  The CAPTCHA you are seeing I don't believe is one of the new 
> ones that have been talked about.  First, the one that says I am not a 
> robot has been around a while, and the article says the new one is 
> "hidden."
>
> I could be wrong, but we might want to be sure before we start 
> accusing people of bad stuff!
>
>
>
> Dave
>
> At 11:47 AM 3/18/2017, Tracy Carcione via Njtechdiv wrote:
>> My congressional representative, Congressman Gottheimer, has one of 
>> those
>> "I'm not a robot" captchas on his website, and it might as well say 
>> "I'm not
>> a robot or a blind person".  It's interesting that it's analyzing my
>> clicking.  I wonder if it's expecting actual mouse clicking, which is 
>> never
>> going to happen with me.  I'm extremely annoyed that I can't contact my
>> congressman through his contact form, and I'm going to call and 
>> complain.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Njtechdiv [mailto:njtechdiv-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mario
>> Brusco via Njtechdiv
>> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 12:14 PM
>> To: New Jersey Technology Division List
>> Cc: Mario Brusco
>> Subject: [Njtechdiv] Google Has Finally Killed the CAPTCHA
>>
>> this article from the Top Tech Tidbits newsletter from Flying Blind, 
>> I think
>> warrants mention because it is a big deal for us blind computer 
>> users, but
>> bear in mind that it is a current achievement and is probably not widely
>> accepted yet.
>>
>>
>> Google Has Finally Killed the CAPTCHA
>> http://gizmodo.com/google-has-finally-killed-the-captcha-1793190374
>>
>> Rhett Jones
>> Saturday 5:47pm
>> Filed to: Captcha Death
>>
>> CAPTCHA's are an irritating but necessary evil. The system that is 
>> used to
>> verify whether or not a user is human has been around a while and it 
>> had to
>> evolve because machines were getting better at reading the text than 
>> humans.
>> With its latest iteration, Google says you'll no longer have to input
>> anything at all.
>>
>> Invisible CAPTCHA's are the latest development in the "Completely 
>> Automated
>> Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart." Google acquired
>> reCaptcha back in 2009.
>> It updated the system in 2013 to allow for the ubiquitous "I'm not a 
>> robot"
>> checkbox that's all over the internet. That version worked by 
>> determining
>> the user's humanity through their clicking style. If the click seemed 
>> fishy,
>> a more elaborate test would be offered. But the Invisible CAPTCHA is 
>> able to
>> recognize that a user is not a bot simply by analyzing their browsing
>> behavior.
>>
>> In a video, the company explained "Powering these advances is a 
>> combination
>> of machine learning and advanced risk analysis that adapt to new and
>> emerging threats." But what's in it for Google?
>>
>> When the search giant initially bought reCaptcha it was actually for the
>> purpose of integrating it into its giant book scanning project. The
>> technology was great for digitizing books that were illegible to 
>> Google's
>> transcription system. But its unclear what Google gains by continuing to
>> improve the software.
>>
>>   Shuman Ghosemajumder, a former Google employee tells Popular Science,
>> "Google in general-and this is certainly a philosophy that we adhered to
>> when I was there-believed that anything that is good for the 
>> internet, is
>> good for Google." In this case, a "more frictionless" internet is 
>> good for
>> everybody. But don't count out the possibility that Google is 
>> improving its
>> machine learning capabilities through your behaviors. And Ghosemajumder
>> points out that Google knows about the past behavior of users when 
>> they're
>> logged in, which would make the system more accurate. That could be a 
>> small
>> incentive for some people to ensure they log in.
>>
>
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