Microsoft's "Human Interactive Proof" is also called a capcha. Veronica Belmont, formerly of CNET, proposed a "kitten capcha" about a year ago during a Buzz Out Loud podcast. Amusing that a Microsoft executive would try to take credit for the idea.
Microsoft's "Human Interactive Proof" is also called a capcha. Veronica Belmont, formerly of CNET, proposed a "kitten capcha" about a year ago during a Buzz Out Loud podcast. Amusing that a Microsoft executive would try to take credit for the idea.
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Asirra
Microsoft is already testing a solution - it's called Asirra - and has been available on their Research website for at least a few months.
Notice there's no mention of accessibility on that page
Because accessibility for blind and low vision people is always an afterthought for Microsoft. Web developers are only beginning to put alternatives for blind and low vision users something like consistently on their Web pages where they're using HIP's for validation. And I'll bet there will be a comment from a blind or low vision reader after this post challenging even that characterization.
I hate spam as much as the next person, and it's twice the nuisance for disabled users as it is for others, but as Harvey Keitel noted to John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson in "Pulp Fiction" after they had gotten the blood and brains from an accidental shooting hosed off their bodies and their car, let's not . . . uh, you get the idea.
Spam
If I understand this article correctly, online or third party email services such as hotmail are the primary mechanical mechanisms used by unwanted spam originators.
Are there *wanted* spam originators? :-)
No, the primary mechinism for originating spam right now is "botnets" of "zombies". That is, home/business Wintel PC's infected by trojans that allow these PC's to be used to send spam and other abuse (such as DDOS, or distributed denial of service attacks). There are quite probably millions of PC's out there that have been compromised in this way. It's a huge problem. However, that doesn't mean that spammers _won't_ use Hotmail/etc. to send spam if they can. And spammers also use similar automated tools to, for example, create MySpace accounts and spam people with "Tammi wants to be your friend!" messages. That's why you're seeing CAPCHA all over the place now...
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