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Re: Plug and play alternatives to captcha

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From: Moore, Michael
Date: Apr 17, 2008 3:20PM

Interesting concept, I wonder if Gez has started a source forge project
to support it.

mike

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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Jon Gibbins
(dotjay)
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 3:38 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Plug and play alternatives to captcha

Aaron Cannon wrote:
<snip>
> However, this captcha issue has been bothering me for some time.
There _must_ be a way for a computer to tell humans and computers apart,
without relying on any of the physical senses of sight or hearing. I
just can't for the life of me think of what it could be.
</snip>

It's a tricky area, but I quite liked Gez Lemon's suggestion for
constructing a massive white-list based on social networking services,
which could be extended within OpenID:
http://juicystudio.com/article/accessibility-of-captcha.php

Jon

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