Which part is weird? If anyone could create an account without a captcha
puzzle then somebody would write a script to create a pile of accounts
and use them for send spam or other nefarious things. More info can be
found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA
I haven't had many issues with getting audio captcha to play (if there
was one) on Safari. So you're saying the Apple audio captcha wasn't
working? I just created an AppleID and it didn't seem to need any
captcha solved.
CB
On 2/18/12 12:38 AM, Jessica wrote:
Ok, that's weird as ever, but ok. Either which way though, I can't
seem to get my mac to play them for some strange reason, so have to
use my pc if I need to sign up for anything that requires them.
I needed to get an Apple ID this afternoon sense I'm in the process
of getting my IPhone, and couldn't get my mac to play the audio
captcha, which I didn't understand, sense it plays everything else
under the sun.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Blouch" <cblo...@aol.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: Captcha Solving on the Mac
It's to fool voice recognition algorithms. The purpose of a captcha is
to try and prove you're a real human being and not a hacker's script so
they come up with puzzles that are difficult for computers to solve. One
of those puzzles is the garbled audio with multiple conversations. Hard
for most people but also nearly impossible for an algorithm. Not sure
how else they could prevent bad folks from making a lot of fake accounts
and such to send out more spam.
CB
On 2/17/12 12:33 AM, Jessica wrote:
They probably haven't; if they'd at least get rid of the jibberish in
the background, those things might be a little easier to understand.
I've never understood why that was there in the first place, sense
it's nothing but pretty much someone talking backwards, if even that.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Adie" <chalmer...@googlemail.com>
To: "MacVisionaries" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: Captcha Solving on the Mac
Hi all
It's not just people with hearing impairments who have trouble with
these audio captchas. They are, generally speaking, of appalling
quality. The ones which contain a sentence, as opposed to unrelated
words and numbers, are a little easier, but really, how can any site
think they are fit for purpose?
I usually try to record what the thing says, but it often is
completely indecipherable. Sometimes I swear I have it right and it
still rejects it.
The site which most annoys me is the UK govt e-petitions site, which
has these for all signatories. My MP even complained to the Cabinet
Office and we just got the brush off. Have any of these people ever
tried one of these themselves? I think not.
It is particularly offensive when they then tell you it's to test if
you are human. Presumably they thk we are not.
Anyway, even I sometimes get fed up of complaining about them to site
owners, but I suppose we just have to keep doing it until they stop
using them. There are other more accessible solutions to the humanity
thing.
Grump
Adrienne
On Feb 14, 8:28 pm, Mark BurningHawk Baxter <markbaxte...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Google, FB, Twitter, all have audio captchas. for people with
hearing loss, these prove abysmally challenging, but even I have
managed to solve them. They're not at all easy, and I dread the
thought of trying to re-sign-up for Craigslist because of this.
• Mark BurningHawk Baxter
• AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969
• MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com
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