[Bug 32125] Should support auth using captcha

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Wed Jan 25 19:03:15 CET 2012


https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32125

--- Comment #5 from Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie at collabora.co.uk> 2012-01-25 10:03:15 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Implementations of captchas on the web tend to consist of either OCR only (the
> same as MXit), or OCR + one of the audio-based things, where you can solve
> either.

... or answering a text-only question, like XMPP's "qa" (highly visible example
for Telepathy developers: the "TextCha" to edit the freedesktop.org wiki).

> ... assumes that
> nobody is ever going to deploy a captcha-style system where ... none of
> the puzzles are "ocr".

Trivially not true, TextCha exists (although I haven't seen it used on XMPP).

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