[91623] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP wants to stop outgoing web based spam
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Black)
Wed Aug 9 11:45:39 2006
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 08:44:54 -0700
From: "Matthew Black" <black@csulb.edu>
X-Original-To: Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org>
In-Reply-To: <1155131992.15734.4.camel@firenze.zurich.ibm.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:59:52 +0200
Jeroen Massar <jeroen@unfix.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 09:50 -0400, Mills, Charles wrote:
>> I think if such a thing would exist, the "verification" gifs to prevent
>> automated free yahoo and hotmail account signups would be defeated as
>> well.
>
> You mean Captcha (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha)
>
> Which is not so much of an issue:
> http://sam.zoy.org/pwntcha/
Use of "captchas" has serious accessibility issues:0
visually-impaired users will have trouble completing forms.
From a legal standpoint, this is a no-go and most definitely
not possible for any government or public-sector agency in
the United States. Several web accessibility regulations
prohibit impairments.
matthew black
network services
california state university, long beach
1250 bellflower boulevard
long beach, ca 90840-0101
