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more on President Bush using challenge-response for his email
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 08:54:08 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 07:02:30 -0400 To: Mike Masnick <mike () techdirt com> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] President Bush using challenge-response for his email
(a) you email the President (b) instead of getting the email, you receive a reply telling you to go to a webpage (c) at that webpage, you need to perform certain tasks to prove you are human (though, the ones on the Whitehouse page are a bit more cumbersome than most C-R systems).
And of course makes it impossible to be heard if you don't have web access, which is the case for some folks behind firewalls, connected by non-IP networks, etc. I haven't visited the site, but -- does the C/R mechanism work with the browsers used by the blind? More generally, challenge-response is a highly-hyped but highly-inefficient and easily-subverted anti-spam mechanism. As I've pointed out elsewhere, it's pretty easy to get around a lot of C-R, and no doubt spammers will do exactly that if and when it becomes more prevalent. It's just another ineffective snake-oil "cure" for the symptoms of spam, and like most of the others, it does NOTHING about the disease. ---Rsk ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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