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

I agree if I had to put that on my computer it would probably mess up something. Also, if you want a service bad enough just have a sighted person help you or call the company and ask them for help. 



From: "John Greer" <jpgreer17@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [nvda] Re: An idea for NVDA coming from a spamming worm
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:00:48 -0500
well that would mean having to have the virus on your computer in order to reverse engineer it, no thanks, i will just stick to my guns of if they dont want to make it accessible to me i won't use it. Cant really think of any service that yahoo has that i can't use another somewhere else anyway. Yahoo MEssenger? Well I have MSN Messenger. Auctions? I have e bay. Search engine? I have google. Online purchasing? Even amazon has made their website accessible to the blind now. If sites like yahoo can't do it it is their loss not mine. 
----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh" <jkenn337@xxxxxxxxx>
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you don't have to install the virus, just reverse-engineer it.

Josh

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----- Original Message ----- From: "John Greer" <jpgreer17@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 7:45 AM
Subject: [nvda] Re: An idea for NVDA coming from a spamming worm
well the thing about that is, I am not going to install a virus on my computer just to circumvent a visual thing. If a company does not want to have any alternative for the blind they don't get my business, simple as that. 
----- Original Message ----- From: "Talksina" <talksina@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 6:47 AM
Subject: [nvda] An idea for NVDA coming from a spamming worm




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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