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From: Mallory van Achterberg
Date: Nov 5, 2014 12:27AM

Yes, I fear we're currently solving the problems of CAPTCHAs by
making more CAPTCHAs.
Proving someone has a physcial sense or ability doesn't prove they
are human or not, and besides, we don't care if they're human, we
care if they are legitimate.

Not sure if the fingerprint idea will really fix things. Not everyone
has those either. But multi-auth has some promise.

_mallory

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 03:36:19PM -0500, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
> It is always good to have more options.
> I hope we are nearing the era of fingerprint identification, codes
> sent to a registerred email address or cell phone number, or other
> more secure forms of identification where that is needed.
> At least providing CAPTCHA puzzles accessibly in two different
> modalities includes a lot more users than only one.