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From: Christian Heilmann
Date: Mar 14, 2007 10:20AM

On 3/14/07, Christian Heilmann < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> > In light of the increasing capacity of machines to deal with current CAPTCHAs, researchers at Microsoft have imagined a new method of authentification. Rather than asking the user to recognise images of letters and numbers, the system would ask him or her to distinguish photos of cats and dogs. A test version, called Asirra, is available at :
> >
> > http://research.microsoft.com/asirra/
>
> This is - as they mention - the same as kittenauth or hotcaptcha and
> as inaccessible for genuinely blind people.

Even worse - they tell you to hook your submit button to the
JavaScript and not the form's submit event thus making your whole form
submission dependent on JavaScript!
http://research.microsoft.com/asirra/installation.aspx

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