Tom even when you want to reply via email link to for example a company you are asked to solve an audio challange and like you I recorded it , but what use does these layers of interferance
have as any use and it's just another problem for us. Hazel----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Lorimer" <tlorimer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 1:43 PM Subject: [access-uk] Sound Captchas have just gotten harder
Hi Guys,I recently tried to enter an online competition which used a Captcha in the entry form.I normally use Firefox and Webvisum to solve Captchas, but as I was using IE8 at the time, I decided to use the Sound Captcha option. Normally you get away with entering 3 or 4 words, but no matter how often I tried, I kept getting an error message telling me my answer was wrong and to go back and try again. Anyway, after about a dozen tries I ended up solving the Captcha with Webvisum.I contacted the company who were running the competition and they told me that it was Google who run the Captcha and that they couldn't do anything to help.After a bit searching, I found out that Hackers had managed to crack the sound Captcha with a 99 percent accuracy. So to block the Hacking, Google have changed the way Sound Captchas are recorded and instead of only having to enter 6 words to solve the Captcha, it has now been increased to 12. I was never able to hear 6 words, and had to listen to the Sound Captcha over and over again before I got it right. How the hell do Google expect blind people to remember 12 words is beyond me. Even having a recording device handy, I doubt if anybody could take down all these words with all that background noise.Here's the link to a page which explains what happened. http://arstechnica.com/security/2012/05/google-recaptcha-brought-to-its-knees/ Tom. ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
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