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Re: A very interesting and comprihensive article on CAPTCHAs

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From: Sailesh Panchang
Date: Nov 20, 2011 4:48PM

Indeed as accessibility enthusiasts we are not in favor of CAPTCHA. I
too was thinking the same thoughts as Jennison: folks from the IT
security field should be involved in this discussion because it is
necessary to get their buy-in on not using CAPTCHA or using
alternatives.
And it is absolutely true that businesses should not subcontract
essentially their problem of distinguishing real users from fake ones
onto visitors and must really rethink of how to manage traffic to
their websites.
It was gratifying when a major credit card company decided to do away
with their CAPTCHA on the registration form this past summer based on
our advocacy. They took some six months to evaluate their strategy and
finally decide that there were other security mechanisms in place and
CAPTCHA was unnecessary.
Sailesh Panchang
www.deque.com

On 11/18/11, Jennison Mark Asuncion < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi,
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> With all of the discussion around captcha alternatives, would be useful if
> somehow conversation could be opened up with colleagues in the info
> security space since, at least in the corporate sector, one would need
> their buy-in before any of this would even be considered.
>
> Jennison
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> Jennison Mark Asuncion
> Co-Director, Adaptech Research Network http://www.adaptech.org
> LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jennison
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