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unCaptcha: A Low-Resource Defeat of reCaptcha’s Audio Challenge

CAPTCHA is almost ubiquitous in today’s web applications and an extremely popular CAPTCHA implementation is Google’s, namely reCaptcha. reCaptcha provides an audio version for visually-impaired users. Researchers manage to make use of free speech-to-text services to defeat audio reCaptcha.

unCaptcha: Talk is cheap in defeating reCaptcha

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internet

AMP for email is a terrible idea

I totally agree with this article. Email is fine as-is. There’s no need to make it more “interactive” or “engaging” – we have the web for that. Email is one of the last vestige of the open internet that hasn’t been locked down into a walled garden. Please keep it that way.

Google just announced a plan to “modernize” email, allowing “engaging, interactive, and actionable email experiences.” Does that sound like a terrible idea to..

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