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From: Karl Groves
Date: May 31, 2012 8:33PM


Halfway through the article I thought to myself "Oh, I know how they can
beat the exploit: Munge the sound even more and make it more inaccessible. "
Sure enough, that's exactly what they did. Ugh


Karl Groves
www.karlgroves.com
@karlgroves



> -----Original Message-----
> From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto:webaim-forum-
> <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Stella Mudd
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 7:42 PM
> To: WebAIM Discussion List
> Subject: [WebAIM] reCAPTCHA
>
> Summary of the link below: Some guys figured out how to crack Google's
> reCAPTCHA by audio mining the audio description used by visually impaired
> users. To thwart this new security hole, Google has made it even more
> difficult to decipher the audio description.
>
> http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/05/google-recaptcha-brought-to-its-
> knees/
>
> What can be done to stop reCAPTCHA from becoming increasingly
> inaccessible? Should we start a movement to kill reCAPTCHA? How about
> noCAPTCHA?
> > > messages to <EMAIL REMOVED>