Hi reading this again slowly spam is supposed to be harmless, I can understand why the system of verification that Zen adopt is one they will not give up. It looks then as if the DDA act would be unlikely to be of any use because if I understand matters it would be hard to prove, and the DDA has , or the DRc has little funding and only takes cases that are almost certain of winning as you all know I hope in October year before last the Conciliation arm of the DRC in Bristol went into receivership, bust in other words and it took many months to get anything put in place, . The Legal Department of RNIB was worked to death they had claims in the pipeline they had to see through, but it was the following year before anything was put in its place the name changed to Equality and something I forget. I doubt anyone dreamed partof the DRc could go bust. Incidentally and I make no apology for mentioning this, I asked Tony Berry RNIB Volunteer about Manor House closure, you see the staff were worried about the Vips,they cared, the residents and others worried about the staff at manor House and their Pensions, All was uncertain tony said to me if "manor House was run as an independant Company and was wound up,the staff could well not get any redundancy or Pensions I did not ever find out but spoke to the person winding it off selling manor House, she said "it was a cash cow and should have been closed down 10 years ago" I couldnot do the walk to Judd street but many did. sorry rant over bu it hapens a fine RNIB technical man I think James Bird, had his job closed down last year due to "restructuring sorry but it is true . ----- Original Message ----- From: "Léonie Watson" <tink@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jaws-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 8:00 PM Subject: [jaws-uk] Re: Web site security Evening, CAPTCHA is a security technique increasingly used by websites to prevent people wishing to open accounts for the purpose of causing problems and damage on the Internet. People who work in the spam business will attempt to write programmes that will automatically run through the sign up process for an account many times, very quickly. The aim is to create thousands of false accounts, particularly with websites such as Hotmail, Yahoo and Google. When the accounts have been created, they're used once only to send out hundreds of thousands of spam emails to the likes of you and I. Because the accounts are only used once, it effectively renders the spammers untraceable and makes it worthless trying to block the spammer's address within your email programme. The CAPTCHA technique asks users to identify a series of characters in an image. The characters are visually distorted, to prevent the spammers from using OCR technology within their automated sign up programmes. Some websites, such as PayPal, offer an Audio-CAPTCHA alternative, which offers access to the same characters via an audio file. The audio is also distorted, to prevent spammers from using speech recognition tools within their automated sign up programmes. Tools like CAPTCHA Killer will be effective up to a point, but are not a long term solution. Any CAPTCHA that the CAPTCHA Killer can successfully complete will also be successfully completed by the spammers. It's just an another automated tool, probably just a lot less sophisticated than the tools used by the spammers. The debate over whether CAPTCHA is an effective security technique has been going on for a while now. Similarly, the concern for accessibility has also been raised. The trouble is that at present, there is no viable alternative that's in a position to replace CAPTCHA. There are other theories out there, but none have the widespread application that CAPTCHA does. It is also possible that there is not a clear case under the DDA, due to the "reasonable effort" phraseology which would make it plausible to argue that the security of the many means it would not be reasonable to remove the CAPTCHA, providing any kind of accessible alternative were provided, such as an email address. It's a difficult issue, certainly a contentious one. I thought the above round up would help people understand more about the technology. Regards, Léonie. -- http://www.tink.co.uk/ ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** jaws-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:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** jaws-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:jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq]** or send a message, to ** jaws-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
