Ah by the way from what I have heard even sighted people are having a lot of difficulty with identifying some of these pictures. It is not like you have control over the pictures presented entirely from my understanding. Scott
On Jan 29, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Keith Watson wrote: > Guess I did not explain the issue that Facebook is trying to solve. > Apparently Facebook accounts have been hacked. Zuckerberg's account was one > of the first and someone posted something to his wall that was not really > bad, but it was there. So in order to keep our accounts safe from hackers > they are implementing a Captcha schema so that their users have to pick from > one of 6 or so pictures of their friends in order to gain access to their > accounts. This is going to be implemented across the board. Doesn't matter > how you access their site you will have to pick from a random set of pictures > of whoever and a friend. This gives you a 1 in 6 chance to guess the right > one. Not odds I would like to take to Vegas. > > Get it now? Hear the fear in my voice? If this is done fully without regard > to our community it could mean the the most popular social medium for staying > in touch with family and friends becomes totally inaccessible to us. Hope I > am wrong and I intend to do some other sourcing of this action, but from last > nights TNT it looks as though it's already being rolled out. > > Keith > > On Jan 28, 2011, at 1:20 AM, brandt wrote: > >> Then, thank goodness for the facebook app on the iPod. I hate capchas, due >> to making a mistake, webvisum no longer works on the windows side of things. >> >> Regards, >> >> Brandt Steenkamp >> >> MSN/Windows live: brandt...@live.com >> >> Google talk: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com >> >> AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com >> >> Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Watson" <tkwatso...@gmail.com> >> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 12:50 AM >> Subject: Re: Facebook Fopa >> >> >> Actually I am not sure how they will do it, but Facebook has said that they >> are going to implement Captcha for all access. I am assuming that this will >> include all three sites, m dot, lite and the regular site. This is why I >> wrote back to Tom Merritt the host of tech news today on the twit network. >> >> Keith >> >> On Jan 27, 2011, at 12:27 PM, brandt wrote: >> >>> Well, if you're using m.facebook.com instead of www.facebook.com you'd be >>> fine. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Brandt Steenkamp >>> >>> MSN/Windows live: brandt...@live.com >>> >>> Google talk: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com >>> >>> AIM: brandt.steenk...@gmail.com >>> >>> Skype: brandt.steenkamp007 >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Watson" <tkwatso...@gmail.com> >>> To: <t...@twit.tv> >>> Cc: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> >>> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 5:03 PM >>> Subject: Facebook Fopa >>> >>> >>>> Tom, >>>> >>>> Caught your story yesterday about Facebook adding Captcha to the users >>>> login. Those of us who are visually challenged are not able to access >>>> Captcha's in any way. So this means that we will no longer be able to >>>> log into our Facebook accounts if this measure is implemented. I would >>>> think that adding some sort of question and answer schema would be >>>> just as secure and still allow the blind community to access their >>>> social media. >>>> >>>> Hopefully this venue and my other emails to various lists will bring >>>> light to an already dark situation. >>>> >>>> Love the show. >>>> Keith Watson >>>> 813-760-1381 >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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