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

Hi:
This is the funniest thing I have ever heard. Congratulations! You've just made my day. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Harmon" <rharmon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 7:59 PM
Subject: [nvda] Re: An idea for NVDA coming from a spamming worm



Josh are you not all right upstairs?  this is the most insane thing I've
heard come out of your mouth. I am at a loss for words, you want the major screen readers to use virus technologiies to bypass captia? You don't have 
too many morals do you?

Rick
----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Duff" <duff379@xxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 7:38 PM
Subject: [nvda] Re: An idea for NVDA coming from a spamming worm


Ummm, no?




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-----Original Message-----
From: nvda-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nvda-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
Of Josh
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 2:07 PM
To: nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [nvda] Re: An idea for NVDA coming from a spamming worm

hey, if this program ould be applied to screen readers like jaws and
window-eyes and hal and system access that would be great also.

Josh

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Talksina" <talksina@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 7:47 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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