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I appreciate all the discourse around #reCAPTCHA over the past few weeks. The Dazed & Confused paper was very enlightening.

A website that I manage was experiencing a dramatic uptick in spam from a contact form, as well as a few other pages that used reCAPTCHA. I have been testing out #hCaptcha for the past week and am happy to report that the spam bots have completely given up on us. It claims to be WCAG 2.1 compliant. It does play very nicely with VoiceOver on iOS and macOS.

OpenAI'M: Micros(ha)ft Shell Company Using Its Technology To Kill

Earlier this month, the company that brings us ChatGPT announced its partnership with California-based weapons company, Anduril, to produce AI weapons. The OpenAI-Anduril system, which was tested in California at the end of November, permits the sharing of data between external parties for decision making on the battlefield. This fits squarely within the US military and OpenAI’s plans to normalize the use of AI on the battlefield.

Anduril, based in Costa Mesa, makes AI-powered drones, missiles, and radar systems, including surveillance towers, Sentry systems, currently used at US military bases worldwide as well as the US-Mexico border and on the British coastline to detect migrants on boats. On December 3rd, they received a three-year contract with the Pentagon for a system that gives soldiers AI solutions during attacks.

https://original.antiwar.com/Nuvpreet_Kalra/2024/12/26/openai-is-using-its-technology-to-kill/

Je crois que je vais arrêter d'utiliser des captchas, en tout cas plus de manière aussi systématique. Les récents témoignages que j'ai lu sur hcaptcha et son manque d' accessibilité m'ont fait beaucoup réfléchir, vu que j'utilisais cette solution en alternative à Google ReCaptcha depuis des années. Il est temps de changer d'outil !

J'ai écrit ce billet pour partager ma réflexion :
ikacode.com/captchas-accessibl

IkaCodeCaptchas accessibles et conformes RGPD, une utopie? - IkaCodeLes captchas, ont les retrouve partout sur le web. Mais comment réagissent les personnes en situation de handicap face à ces tests?
#a11y#rgpd#hcaptcha

Has anyone successfully created a #BlueSky account, using a #Screen-reader? I'm fine, up until I reach the final step, where it has you verify that you're human.It uses #HCaptcha, which is supposed to be #accessible. I've used it successfully before, but this time, no matter what I do, the darn checkbox won't check. I've tried on my pc with #JAWS, NVDA & #Narrator, as well as my Mac with #Voiceover & even my phone. How do you recommend I proceed? (1/2)

So why does #hCAPTCHA still insist on forcing blind people to retrieve their so-called “accessibility cookies”. Not only does that compel us to go through many more additional steps than a sighted person would have to do to verify their humanity (irony!) but I gather this dreadful workaround is not really even secure! Have they not heard of a simple thing called “audio challenges” or even better options…? Is this really “accessibility”…? (#Discord,#DoBetter!)

If your #blind, #signal does nothing to protect your #privacy. They use #hcaptcha, so if you can’t see the images, you have to enable cross site cookies and give them a valid email. And if you want to contact signal about it, sending your device info via unencrypted email is the default way. This is not how privacy or #security work. You’re better off with iMessage. Or even watsapp! At least they don’t hand your data over to a third party captcha provider. Or send your device info via unencrypted email.

Edit: thanks to the fediverse, I was alerted that Signal can be contacted in other ways. But you have to go look for them; pressing the "get support" button in the app sends an unencrypted email with a link to your device logs. I have edited this post for accuracy.
#infosec #a11y #accessibility

Anyone know how to get in touch with Royal Mail?

The #HCaptcha is throwing that usual 'An error has occured' message and I can't get anywhere trying to have a package delivered.

This inaccessible HCaptcha plague is now a serious issue to blind people.