[Njtechdiv] Google Has Finally Killed the CAPTCHA

[Eileen Scrivani]

David,

Cam you please send me your direct email off-list? I need to ask you about getting an id removed from the NJ-Tech-div list. I do NOT have the password for the ID in question.

Thanks.

Eileen


From: David Andrews via Njtechdiv 
Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2017 7:13 PM
To: New Jersey Technology Division List ; 'New Jersey Technology Division List' 
Cc: David Andrews 
Subject: Re: [Njtechdiv] Google Has Finally Killed the CAPTCHA

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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