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CAPTCHAs May Soon Go Extinct
Gizmodo ^ | John Biggs

Posted on 05/17/2021 7:11:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin

CAPTCHA, which stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” first appeared in 1997 and has proliferated across the Internet, slowly morphing into the “Find the bicycle” challenges that we face today. Cloudflare, who obviously has money riding on anything that makes it easier to sift robot attackers from humans, is proposing a new service that uses hardware keys to confirm your existence.

The most popular model, the Yubikey, is a little dongle that connects to your computer and sends a special code when you touch a conductive surface. In this case, the USB key is literally an object you stick into your machine to unlock certain websites and, because you have to interact with it physically, Cloudflare assumes that you’re a human being with fingers. These keys could also pass minimal identifying information onto the website in question but most key manufacturers claim no data changes hands.

“We want to get rid of CAPTCHAs completely. The idea is rather simple: a real human should be able to touch or look at their device to prove they are human, without revealing their identity,” it wrote in a blog post. “We want you to be able to prove that you are human without revealing which human you are! You may ask if this is even possible? And the answer is: Yes! We’re starting with trusted USB keys that have been around for a while, but increasingly phones and computers come equipped with this ability by default.”

Yubikeys start at $55 and go up to $70 for more complex versions and even open-source versions cost about $40. A high-end iPhone or Android device with enough smarts to manage the tricks Cloudflare is proposing will cost hundreds if not thousands.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: bigtech; captcha; privacy; spying
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To: Tijeras_Slim

I’ve seen some others that show a picture and ask a question that requires human intelligence to answer, such as whether a woman’s skirt is above or below the knee. Many alternatives to capcha.


21 posted on 05/17/2021 8:11:08 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: UnwashedPeasant

You can bet on it.

“Why does this stick need to be 128 gig and labelled as “swap”?

Swapping with what where?


22 posted on 05/17/2021 8:14:56 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: BenLurkin

I’ve used a Yubikey for two factor authentication. They work better in some machines than in others, in my experience.


23 posted on 05/17/2021 8:25:41 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Tijeras_Slim

fire hydrants are my favorite.. :O


24 posted on 05/17/2021 8:29:37 PM PDT by LibertyWoman ("Where there is no law, there is no liberty." Benjamin Rush)
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To: BenLurkin

CAPTCHAs are also very easy to parody. The funniest one I saw was a check box picture type, called “Find the Thot”. It had screen after screen full of pictures of selfies, TikTok girls, twerkers, etc. No matter how many you checked, there would be another page.

There was also the menacing text CAPTCHAs. The wrong movie quotes. The bad math ones. It was fun.


25 posted on 05/17/2021 8:51:54 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Poor kids are just as bright, just as talented, as white kids." - Joe Biden Aug 8, 2019)
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To: BenLurkin

Amen

And you need 2020 eyesight for those damn gauntlets


26 posted on 05/17/2021 8:52:49 PM PDT by wardaddy (Let me guess FREEPERS are now salivating over Tim Scott.....so predictable just like talk radio )
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To: a fool in paradise

That is how we knew our now 14 year old had vision issues at 3-4

He was looking at TV calling a dog a bear ....

He has what we euphemistically call a wandering or weak eye....

Which is in reality a perfectly good eyeball they brain hasn’t trained for some reason

After a year of tortuous training regimens ...he got glasses which are pretty stout...like 20/60 and 300/1200 eyesight....

It’s a lifetime of this baring developments

I think everyone loses vision capability by 55-60


27 posted on 05/17/2021 8:56:52 PM PDT by wardaddy (Let me guess FREEPERS are now salivating over Tim Scott.....so predictable just like talk radio )
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To: BenLurkin

Cloudfare’s reCAPTCHA is less about protecting websites and more about denying service to anyone using an anonymizing browser or other method to deny them the ability to identify and track them.


28 posted on 05/17/2021 9:04:08 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: All

The more websites that use Captcha, the fewer I utilize.

And I’ll be damned if I’ll use some dongle to identify myself.

Quit doing business with one of my banks when they started requiring that their customers get a one time passcode sent to their smart phone every time they wanted to log into online banking.


29 posted on 05/17/2021 10:39:03 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: BenLurkin

What about those grids over a photo where you identify which squares have a picture of a cross walk?

Those tests seem to determine if you are a human or a robot well enough.


30 posted on 05/17/2021 11:27:16 PM PDT by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

Boats, bikes and traffic lights.


31 posted on 05/17/2021 11:56:32 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Paal Gulli
"anonymizing browser"


(VPN)
32 posted on 05/18/2021 12:18:24 AM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: jonrick46

Until they do the bus/car/truck, and the pictures are too small to see anything :/


33 posted on 05/18/2021 12:20:47 AM PDT by Bikkuri (If you're conservative, you're an "extremist." If you're liberal, you're an "activist.")
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To: BenLurkin

I tried to read this article, but I couldn’t pass the CAPTCHA.


34 posted on 05/18/2021 12:21:30 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: Paal Gulli

Cloudfare’s reCAPTCHA is less about protecting websites and more about denying service to anyone using an anonymizing browser or other method to deny them the ability to identify and track them.
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Lots of websites blocking VPN users. Constantly now have to opt in to almost every website to gain access with Apple’s new iOS update. Annoying as effk.


35 posted on 05/18/2021 1:46:45 AM PDT by Starcitizen (So Indian H1B crybaby trash runs Free Republic moderation??? Seems so. )
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To: BenLurkin

Presently it costs nothing to use a CAPTCHA. Why do they imagine I’s want to fork over 40-70 for some gadget that I don’t have a free port to plug it into that could also backdoor its way into my PC?


36 posted on 05/18/2021 4:43:14 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: rdb3; JosephW; martin_fierro; Still Thinking; zeugma; Vinnie; ironman; Egon; raybbr; AFreeBird; ...

37 posted on 05/18/2021 4:48:31 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: Starcitizen

Yep, I have to allow several trackers in my NoScript blocker to even see the ReCaptcha. They have it rigged slick so that there is no way to get access without allowing the trackers too. So... They lose my business and I move on.


38 posted on 05/18/2021 5:16:20 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: BenLurkin

In house Q&A Captchas and/or Honey Pots work flawlessly for websites. Every site I have installed these on have never been hit with bot access. An absolute MUST for domain/site “contact” forms. And they are user/customer friendly.

Recaptchas are all about that 3rd party API connection...


39 posted on 05/18/2021 5:26:53 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: BenLurkin

40 posted on 05/18/2021 5:29:30 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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