Re: [orca-list] Vox.com: Why captchas are getting harder (fwd)

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>]

The Navy got into using mathematical captchas with success.


On Sat, 15 May 2021, Glenn K0LNY wrote:

> I was creating an Outlook.com eMail account, and in the creation, they had
> an audio captcha that was easy, once you figure out what they want.
> They play three different sounds, and most of us won't notice that they ask
> for a particular sound.
> I thought that it wanted me to solve one of them, and they were all pretty
> impossible to decipher, but in trying it again, I realized that I just had
> to enter a 1, 2, or a 3, for the choice that is the sound of a crowd.
> That is the best way to do an audio challenge, instead of trying to figure
> out what they actually said.
> I had one recently that had a bunch of words, and one word was toe, or tow,
> I wasn't sure which one to choose.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel panix com>
> To: <orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2021 7:45 PM
> Subject: [orca-list] Vox.com: Why captchas are getting harder (fwd)
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 14 May 2021 23:56:57
> From: Jude DaShiell <dashielljude gmail com>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel panix com>
> Subject: Vox.com: Why captchas are getting harder
>
> Vox.com: Why captchas are getting harder.
> https://www.vox.com/22436832/captchas-getting-harder-ai-artificial-intelligence
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