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From: Randi
Date: Tue, Aug 25 2009 12:20PM
Subject: Solona - CAPTCHA interpreting service
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Hi all,

Thought this might be of interest.

Excerpt:

"Solona is a service that provides CAPTCHA solution assistance for
visually impaired Internet users who encounter CAPTCHAS that are
difficult or impossible to solve."

Basically, we take a screenshot of the captcha page, submit it, they
solve it, and tell us the answer. I'm trying it, but I'm not getting
the screenshot right. I'm already in contact with their support
people. I am very impressed thus far!



http://www.solona.net/index.php

Regards,
Randi

From: Rich Pedley
Date: Tue, Aug 25 2009 4:10PM
Subject: Re: Solona - CAPTCHA interpreting service
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On 25/08/2009 19:15, Randi wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thought this might be of interest.
>
> Excerpt:
>
> "Solona is a service that provides CAPTCHA solution assistance for
> visually impaired Internet users who encounter CAPTCHAS that are
> difficult or impossible to solve."
>
> Basically, we take a screenshot of the captcha page, submit it, they
> solve it, and tell us the answer. I'm trying it, but I'm not getting
> the screenshot right. I'm already in contact with their support
> people. I am very impressed thus far!
>
> http://www.solona.net/index.php

Interesting, but surely they can't be fast enough to solve a captcha
by using this method.

Anyway I still think they are evil, and a lot of them have been broken
by various methods - including some simple javascript is my memory is
correct.

Rich

From: Randi
Date: Tue, Aug 25 2009 4:35PM
Subject: Re: Solona - CAPTCHA interpreting service
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Doing the screenshot and submitting it took about 1 minutes, I got a
reply back within 1 minute. It would have worked beautifally if I had
gotten the screenshot done right haha. They responded back immediately
with "this is just a picture of the apple menu bar". Its lighting
quick. Yes, they are still evil, but if I can use this instead of
waiting for a sightie to get home, all hail to them....