[nvda] Re: An idea for NVDA coming from a spamming worm

yahoo probably wouldn't like it.
At 11:47 p.m. 16/07/2007, you wrote:



Hi,
I read in some technology-related news feeds, that there was a worm called Spammer.HotLan.a, which is able to skip visual confirmation boxes in yahoo, hotmail and other similar services. That means that captcha's can be bypassed by spam bots, but not by visually impaired people! I am talking about those services (yahoo, myspace, paypal italy, facebox, click and buy...) which have no audio support at all, the human operator system of yahoo has no sense, it's easier to call a sighted person and make him/her read captcha for us... My idea was to find the worm executable, and to find someone who can reverse engineer this malicious code, taking all the bad thing away, considering just the part of code used to skip captchas My idea would be to include this feature in NVDA, and when the NVDA user register to yahoo or other service, the registration is sent even without captcha. Of course agreeing with service providers, to use a specific tag; this semi-automated process would send a warning, together with registration data, that is "[THIS USER IS A NVDA BLIND USER, CAPTCHA SKIPPED]" Well, this is just an idea, unfortunately I have no knowledge to implement this or to reverse engineer the worm, but I have a contact with a "worm collector" maybe he can help 
bye.

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