Hopefully there will be a way to "opt out" of these periodic captchas, such as verifying a mobile device or some other such thing.
Teresa On Jan 29, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn wrote: > This was done for Tunisia where the goverment sstole peoples identity and > then erased accounts. There is an article about this in The Atlantic. When > Facebook discovered that a large store of accounts had their passwords stolen > because they were sending them in clear text, they did 2 things > > 1. Create a query asking who is this person for anybody whose account had > been comprimised by the goverenment. > 2. Enabled HTTPS for facebook so that passwords could not be stolen. > > So if the entire reason for the queries is to ensure your account has not > been hijacked, then just using the HTTPS should be sufficient. > > Jon > > On Jan 29, 2011, at 7:36 AM, Keith Watson wrote: > >>> What's not true? That we cannot access Captcha's or that Facebook is going >>> to implement this as a security measure? Well I will give you the Captcha >>> access having a work around, if it were a normal Captcha. We could then go >>> through the hoops of sending it off to a service to have some sighted >>> person tell us what it is then put it in. Or listen to some convoluted >>> audio crap that someone with any hearing difficulty at all can make neither >>> heads nor tales of. But in this case the Captcha schema that Facebook HAS, >>> note the caps on that "HAS", implemented is not of this type. They are >>> using pictures of people that you have friended as the Captcha. How is >>> someone that you don't know going to tell you who that picture of Scott >>> Howell picking his nose is? And don't give me the line about just ask >>> someone sighted in your house to assist. Some of us live alone and do not >>> wish to rely on sightlings for help. >> >> Above I capitalized the word has. I did this because last night I again >> caught the Friday edition of TNT and a caller verified that Facebook was >> already rolling out this schema. I have not yet run into it, but am just >> waiting for the first time that I do. Will probably be the last time I use >> Facebook. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Keith >>> >> >> On Jan 27, 2011, at 5:54 PM, Maurice Mines wrote: >> >>> not true. >>> On Jan 27, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Thomas Watson wrote: >>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> Maurice Mines >>> min...@me.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> 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.
