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

Exactly
Nvda is a good screen reader

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Från: nvda-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nvda-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] För John
Greer
Skickat: den 17 juli 2007 12:29
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Ämne: [nvda] Re: An idea for NVDA coming from a spamming worm


Again the thing is, I can almost bet NVDA will not have something like that 
knowingly placed in it to get past them.  That is the same as cracking 
software, bypassing a websites security is of the same mentality.  It is 
also not legal to do such things so this is of course a dead issue.  As I 
said NVDA is a screen reader not a security bypass tool, not a tool that 
cracks software.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "shaun everiss" <shaun.e@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 4:58 AM
Subject: [nvda] Re: An idea for NVDA coming from a spamming worm


> you probably wouldn't have to run the file.
> there are loads of decompilers out there and you would probably load 
> the
> file and decompile it.
> At 11:45 p.m. 16/07/2007, you wrote:
>
>>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>
>>To: <nvda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>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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>>>source free screen reader for Microsoft Windows:
>>>http://www.nvda-project.org/
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>>source free screen reader for Microsoft Windows:
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